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IRA register: licensed insurers in Kenya
VerifiedVerified against the IRA register, checked 2 Sept 2026.
The IRA register for Kenya as the directory holds it: 64 licensed insurers with the identifiers the register carries, ready to export as JSON.
Snapshot
By class of business
Each company is counted once, under the class its register row records. The supervisor’s own tally counts licences, so a company licensed for more than one class appears more than once there.
By ownership
“Cross-border groups” counts foreign multinationals and pan-regional groups; “domestically owned” counts domestic private, state-owned, mutual and captive entities. The register records the parent’s type, not its home market. How ownership is recorded
IRA register rows
All 64 entities.
Regulatory intelligence: Kenya
Read from the register, not written for this page: the supervisor’s regime, the source the list was checked against, and the market notes recorded alongside it.
- Supervisor
- Insurance Regulatory Authority IRA
- Regime
- Insurance Act Cap 487; risk-based capital
- Register source
- IRA Kenya Gazette notice, 30 Apr 2026 (Section 184) - full register
- Verification
- Verified against the regulator register · IRA Gazette 30 Apr 2026
Recorded market events
IRA gazetted 2026 licensed insurers (30 Apr 2026): 5 reinsurers, 35 general, 22 life, 5 micro
Effect on directory: Master List mirrors gazette; distressed firms under PCF statutory management omitted
Sanlam and Allianz operate as Sanlam Allianz in Kenya; AIG Kenya now NCBA Insurance; Equity Group licensed for general and health
Effect on directory: Names updated
Governing legislation
- Insurance Act, Cap. 487 · Establishing law & insurance framework
Section 3 establishes IRA; section 3A sets its functions; sections 3B and 3E provide for its board and Commissioner. The Authority provisions were introduced by Act No. 11 of 2006. Linked consolidation: 11 December 2023; later amendments have not been comprehensively checked.
Verification log
Removed Corporate Insurance, Trident, Xplico, Invesco, Kuscco Mutual, Metropolitan Cannon (not on 2026 gazette); added NCBA Insurance, Star Discover, Bupa Global, Definite, Equity General/Health, Cannon, AMACO, 5 micro-insurers
For B2B teams and AI agents
The same rows as static JSON, no key, CORS open, CC BY 4.0. Paged files stay under 96 KB so an agent’s fetch tool never truncates them.
curl -s https://insurers.global/api/v1/countries/kenya.json
curl -s https://insurers.global/api/v1/countries/kenya/insurers/pages/1.json- MCP: connect
https://insurers.global/mcpand callget_country_summarywith{ "country": "kenya" }, orlist_insurerswithcountry,limitandoffsetfor paged rows. - OpenAPI 3.1: /api/v1/openapi.json · WebMCP: /.well-known/webmcp.json · Guide: /ai/ · llms.txt
- Dataset version
2026-09-08+3f3925fad259; every response carriesversion,verifiedandlicence.