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Licensed insurance companies in Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana (2026)

PartialPartially verified against the BoG / CBvS / ACPR register, checked 7 Sept 2026.

The 24 insurance companies licensed in Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana in 2026, as recorded by the Bank of Guyana / Centrale Bank van Suriname / ACPR (France) (BoG / CBvS / ACPR), 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

  • Domestic private16 67%
  • Foreign multinational4 17%
  • Mutual / cooperative4 17%

“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 Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana

All 24 entities.

InsurerClassOwnershipGroupVerification
Assuria N.V. (Suriname)CCompositeDomestic privateAssuriaPartial
Assuria GuyanaGGeneral (Non-life)Foreign multinationalAssuria (Suriname)Partial
Assuria Life (GY) Inc.LLifeDomestic private—Partial
Caricom General Insurance (Guyana)GGeneral (Non-life)Domestic privateCaricomPartial
CG United Insurance Ltd.GGeneral (Non-life)Foreign multinationalCoralisle Group LtdPartial
Demerara Fire and General Insurance Company LimitedGGeneral (Non-life)Domestic private—Partial
Demerara Mutual Life (Guyana)LLifeMutual / cooperativeDemerara MutualPartial
Diamond Fire & General (Guyana)GGeneral (Non-life)Domestic privateDiamondPartial
Fatum SurinameCCompositeForeign multinationalGuardian GroupPartial
Frandec & Company (Insurance) Inc.GGeneral (Non-life)Domestic private—Partial
French Guiana - French insurers (AXA, Groupama, Generali) via branchesCCompositeForeign multinational—Partial
G.C.I.S. IncorporatedGGeneral (Non-life)Domestic private—Partial
GTM LifeLLifeMutual / cooperativeGTMPartial
Guyana and Trinidad Mutual (GTM) FireGGeneral (Non-life)Mutual / cooperativeGTMPartial
Hand-in-Hand Mutual Fire Insurance (Guyana)GGeneral (Non-life)Mutual / cooperative—Partial
Hand-in-Hand Mutual Life Assurance Company LimitedLLifeDomestic private—Partial
Nafico (North American Fire & General, Guyana)GGeneral (Non-life)Domestic privateNaficoPartial
North American Life Insurance Company LimitedLLifeDomestic private—Partial
Parsasco (Suriname)GGeneral (Non-life)Domestic privateParsascoPartial
Premier Insurance Company Inc.GGeneral (Non-life)Domestic private—Partial
Premier Life Inc.LLifeDomestic private—Partial
Self Reliance (Suriname)CCompositeDomestic privateSelf ReliancePartial
Surinaamse Assurantie MaatschappijGGeneral (Non-life)Domestic privateIndependentPartial
The New India Assurance Company (Trinidad & Tobago) LimitedGGeneral (Non-life)Domestic private—Partial

Full table for Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana ↗

Regulatory intelligence: Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana

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
Bank of Guyana, List of Registered Insurance Companies (v2, PDF created 19 Sep 2023, the list linked from bankofguyana.org.gy as at 22 Sep 2026): 18 companies with their long-term and general classes. No Suriname (CBvS) or French Guiana (ACPR) list retrieved
Verification
Partially verified against the regulator register · Bank of Guyana, List of Registered Insurance Companies (v2, PDF created 19 Sep 2023, the list linked from bankofguyana.org.gy as at 22 Sep 2026): 18 companies with their long-term and general classes. No Suriname (CBvS) or French Guiana (ACPR) list retrieved

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

Governing legislation

  • Guyana · Bank of Guyana · National jurisdiction

    Insurance Act 2016 strengthens the central bank’s risk-based supervisory powers.

  • Suriname · CBvS · National jurisdiction

    The central bank’s published overview describes supervision under the Banking and Credit Institutions Supervision Act, amended in 1986. It labels the replacement insurance act as a draft.

  • French Guiana · ACPR · National jurisdiction

    French insurance supervision operates through the ACPR under the Monetary and Financial Code.

Verification log

Guyana reconciled against the Bank of Guyana register of 18 insurers (Sep 2023): 8 rows matched, Assuria Guyana reclassed C to G, 10 added, Massy United removed as acquired and renamed CG United (2022). Suriname (5 rows) and the French Guiana placeholder row were not reconciled: the CBvS and ACPR sites could not be reached.

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