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Licensed insurance companies in Australia (2026)
VerifiedVerified against the APRA / ASIC register, checked 4 Sept 2026.
The 145 insurance companies licensed in Australia in 2026, as recorded by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority / ASIC (APRA / ASIC), with the class of business and ownership each one is registered under.
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
Licensed insurers in Australia
Showing 25 of 145 entities. The full, filterable table is on the country page; every row is in the JSON below.
Regulatory intelligence: Australia
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
- Australian Prudential Regulation Authority / ASIC APRA / ASIC
- Regime
- Insurance Act 1973; Life Insurance Act 1995; PHI Act 2015
- Register source
- APRA general (21 May 2026, 84 + run-off), life and friendly societies (7 Oct 2025, 22 + 10; re-checked 9 Sep 2026 and unchanged), private health insurers (30 Jul 2026, 28), NOHC list (21 Jul 2026) - user-supplied prints
- Verification
- Verified against the regulator register · APRA general (21 May 2026, 84 + run-off), life and friendly societies (7 Oct 2025, 22 + 10; re-checked 9 Sep 2026 and unchanged), private health insurers (30 Jul 2026, 28), NOHC list (21 Jul 2026) - user-supplied prints
No market event is recorded against this register for 2026. The regime and source above are the standing facts.
Governing legislation
- APRA Act 1998; Insurance Act 1973 · Institutional and insurance framework
APRA is the prudential supervisor established under its 1998 act. General insurance is governed by the Insurance Act 1973; life and private health insurance have separate sector legislation. ASIC has conduct responsibilities.
Verification log
PHI: removed Queensland Country Health Fund, TUH, Nurses & Midwives Health, Emergency Services Health (merged, not on register); added CBHS Corporate Health, Health Care Insurance, National Health Benefits Australia; NOHCs (Allianz Australia, Arch, Assetinsure, Chubb, Guild, Helia, Hollard, IAG, QBE, PetSure, RAA, RACT, Suncorp, Wood, Youi, Zurich FS; Australian Unity, Challenger, ClearView, Nippon Life ANZ, St Andrew's, TAL Dai-ichi) reflected in Parent/Group, not as insurer rows
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/australia.json
curl -s https://insurers.global/api/v1/countries/australia/insurers/pages/1.json- MCP: connect
https://insurers.global/mcpand callget_country_summarywith{ "country": "australia" }, 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.