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Licensed insurance companies in Bangladesh (2026)
VerifiedVerified against the IDRA register, checked 4 Sept 2026.
The 82 insurance companies licensed in Bangladesh in 2026, as recorded by the Insurance Development and Regulatory Authority (IDRA), 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 Bangladesh
Showing 25 of 82 entities. The full, filterable table is on the country page; every row is in the JSON below.
Regulatory intelligence: Bangladesh
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 Development and Regulatory Authority IDRA
- Regime
- Insurance Act 2010; IDRA Act 2010
- Register source
- IDRA web portal, "Insurance Company" section: "Life insurers" list (36) and "Non-life insurer" list (46), both published 29 Jan 2026, retrieved 22 Sep 2026 from the portal JSON API: 82 insurers
- Verification
- Verified against the regulator register · IDRA web portal, "Insurance Company" section: "Life insurers" list (36) and "Non-life insurer" list (46), both published 29 Jan 2026, retrieved 22 Sep 2026 from the portal JSON API: 82 insurers
No market event is recorded against this register for 2026. The regime and source above are the standing facts.
Governing legislation
- IDRA Act 2010; Insurance Act 2010 · Institutional and insurance framework
The IDRA Act creates the specialist authority, while the Insurance Act governs insurance business. IDRA began operating in January 2011.
Verification log
Reconciled against IDRA's life (36) and non-life (46) insurer lists published 29 Jan 2026: 34 rows matched, Prime Insurance and Sena Kalyan Insurance recorded as renamed (Prime Islami Insurance PLC, Sena Insurance PLC), and 48 insurers added (20 life, 28 non-life, including the two successors).
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/bangladesh.json
curl -s https://insurers.global/api/v1/countries/bangladesh/insurers/pages/1.json- MCP: connect
https://insurers.global/mcpand callget_country_summarywith{ "country": "bangladesh" }, 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.