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Licensed insurance companies in France (2026)

VerifiedVerified against the ACPR register, checked 3 Sept 2026.

The 614 insurance companies licensed in France in 2026, as recorded by L’Autorité de Contrôle Prudentiel et de Résolution (ACPR), with the class of business and ownership each one is registered under.

614Licensed operators
76Life12% of entities
0General (non-life)0% of entities
35Cross-border groups579 domestically owned

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

  • Mutual / cooperative328 53%
  • Domestic private239 39%
  • Pan-European group24 4%
  • State-owned / parastatal12 2%
  • Foreign multinational11 2%

“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 France

Showing 25 of 614 entities. The full, filterable table is on the country page; every row is in the JSON below.

InsurerClassOwnershipGroupVerification
ALLIANZ IARDUNot stated in registerPan-European groupAllianzVerified
ALLIANZ VIELLifePan-European groupAllianzVerified
AM-GMFUNot stated in registerMutual / cooperativeCoveaVerified
AREAS DOMMAGESUNot stated in registerMutual / cooperativeCoveaVerified
AVIVA RETRAITE PROFESSIONNELLELLifePan-European groupAvivaVerified
AXA ASSISTANCE FRANCE ASSURANCESXSpecialty / Credit / CaptivePan-European groupAXAVerified
AXA ASSURANCES IARD MUTUELLEHHealth / MedicalPan-European groupAXAVerified
AXA ASSURANCES VIE MUTUELLEHHealth / MedicalPan-European groupAXAVerified
AXA ASSURCREDITXSpecialty / Credit / CaptivePan-European groupAXAVerified
AXA FRANCE IARDUNot stated in registerPan-European groupAXAVerified
AXA FRANCE VIELLifePan-European groupAXAVerified
AXA HEALTH INSURANCEHHealth / MedicalPan-European groupAXAVerified
AXA HEALTH RERReinsurerPan-European groupAXAVerified
AXA Réassurance Vie FranceRReinsurerPan-European groupAXAVerified
AXA SAUNot stated in registerPan-European groupAXAVerified
BNP PARIBAS CARDIFUNot stated in registerDomestic privateBNP ParibasVerified
CAISSE D ASSURANCES MUTUELLES DU CREDIT AGRICOLEHHealth / MedicalMutual / cooperativeCredit AgricoleVerified
CAISSE NATIONALE DE REASSURANCE MUTUELLE AGRICOLE GROUPAMARReinsurerMutual / cooperativeGroupamaVerified
CARDIF - ASSURANCES RISQUES DIVERSUNot stated in registerDomestic privateBNP ParibasVerified
CARDIF ASSURANCE VIELLifeDomestic privateBNP ParibasVerified
CARDIF IARDUNot stated in registerDomestic privateBNP ParibasVerified
CHUBB EUROPEAN GROUP SEUNot stated in registerForeign multinationalChubbVerified
CHUBB LIFE EUROPE SELLifeForeign multinationalChubbVerified
CNP ASSURANCESUNot stated in registerState-owned / parastatalCNP AssurancesVerified
CNP ASSURANCES IARDUNot stated in registerState-owned / parastatalCNP AssurancesVerified

Full table for France ↗

Regulatory intelligence: France

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.

Register source
EIOPA Register of Insurance Undertakings export (3 Sep 2026)
Verification
Verified against the regulator register · EIOPA export, 610 domestic undertakings / 3rd-country branches

No market event is recorded against this register for 2026. The regime and source above are the standing facts.

Governing legislation

  • Monetary and Financial Code, Article L.612-1 · Institutional and insurance framework

    The ACPR is attached to the Banque de France and supervises banking and insurance. Its powers derive from the Monetary and Financial Code.

Verification log

Class and group inferred from name - see Master List basis columns

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/france.json
curl -s https://insurers.global/api/v1/countries/france/insurers/pages/1.json
  • MCP: connect https://insurers.global/mcp and call get_country_summary with { "country": "france" }, or list_insurers with country, limit and offset for paged rows.
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  • Dataset version 2026-09-08+3f3925fad259; every response carries version, verified and licence.