Licensed list · Asia-Pacific · Middle East & Gulf · BH
Licensed insurance companies in Bahrain (2026)
VerifiedVerified against the CBB register, checked 4 Sept 2026.
The 41 insurance companies licensed in Bahrain in 2026, as recorded by the Central Bank of Bahrain (CBB), 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 Bahrain
Showing 25 of 41 entities. The full, filterable table is on the country page; every row is in the JSON below.
Regulatory intelligence: Bahrain
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
- Central Bank of Bahrain CBB
- Register source
- CBB Register (Licensing Directory), Insurance Licensees: Locally Incorporated Insurance Firms (21), Overseas Insurance Firms (10), Insurance Firms Restricted to Business Outside Bahrain (8), Insurance Pools & Syndicates (2), retrieved 22 Sep 2026 from the CBB register API: 41 entities
- Verification
- Verified against the regulator register · CBB Register (Licensing Directory), Insurance Licensees: Locally Incorporated Insurance Firms (21), Overseas Insurance Firms (10), Insurance Firms Restricted to Business Outside Bahrain (8), Insurance Pools & Syndicates (2), retrieved 22 Sep 2026 from the CBB register API: 41 entities
No market event is recorded against this register for 2026. The regime and source above are the standing facts.
Governing legislation
- Central Bank of Bahrain and Financial Institutions Law 2006 · Institutional and insurance framework
Decree 64/2006 established the CBB as successor to the Bahrain Monetary Agency and replaced the former insurance law. Insurance rules sit within the CBB rulebook.
Verification log
Reconciled against the CBB register of insurance licensees (41 firms incl. branches, offshore-restricted firms and two pools): 14 rows matched, 27 added, 2 removed (ACR ReTakaful placeholder, "Bahrain Re" cross-reference); BNI and Medgulf corrected C to G, Hannover Retakaful R to T. Brokers, consultants, managers, actuaries and loss adjusters are excluded; 9 listed firms carry "Under Liquidation" or "Portfolio Transferred" remarks.
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/bahrain.json
curl -s https://insurers.global/api/v1/countries/bahrain/insurers/pages/1.json- MCP: connect
https://insurers.global/mcpand callget_country_summarywith{ "country": "bahrain" }, 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.