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Licensed insurance companies in New Zealand (2026)
VerifiedVerified against the RBNZ / FMA register, checked 4 Sept 2026.
The 81 insurance companies licensed in New Zealand in 2026, as recorded by the Reserve Bank of New Zealand / FMA (RBNZ / FMA), 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 New Zealand
Showing 25 of 81 entities. The full, filterable table is on the country page; every row is in the JSON below.
Regulatory intelligence: New Zealand
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
- Reserve Bank of New Zealand / FMA RBNZ / FMA
- Regime
- Insurance (Prudential Supervision) Act 2010 (IPSA)
- Register source
- RBNZ Register of New Zealand licensed insurers, last updated 26 Aug 2026 (page saved by the owner on 23 Sep 2026): 79 licensed insurers
- Verification
- Verified against the regulator register · RBNZ Register of New Zealand licensed insurers, last updated 26 Aug 2026 (page saved by the owner on 23 Sep 2026): 79 licensed insurers
No market event is recorded against this register for 2026. The regime and source above are the standing facts.
Governing legislation
- Insurance (Prudential Supervision) Act 2010 · Institutional and insurance framework
RBNZ prudentially supervises insurers under IPSA, with boards and senior management primarily responsible for their businesses. Conduct regulation also involves the FMA.
Verification log
Reconciled against the RBNZ register of 79 licensed insurers (last updated 26 Aug 2026, page saved by the owner): 32 rows matched, 47 licensees added (overseas insurers operating in NZ, captives, the second MAS, Gen Re, Munich Re and Southern Cross entities, Hollard, Union Medical Benefits), 14 rows removed (brands such as Ando, Initio, Cove, Accuro and UniMed that are not licensees, Foundation Life whose licence was cancelled on 4 May 2026, and rows absent from the register), ACC and the Natural Hazards Commission kept as statutory bodies outside the register. The register gives no class, so added classes come from names only and many are U.
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/new-zealand.json
curl -s https://insurers.global/api/v1/countries/new-zealand/insurers/pages/1.json- MCP: connect
https://insurers.global/mcpand callget_country_summarywith{ "country": "new-zealand" }, 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.