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Licensed insurance companies in Sri Lanka (2026)
VerifiedVerified against the IRCSL register, checked 4 Sept 2026.
The 29 insurance companies licensed in Sri Lanka in 2026, as recorded by the Insurance Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka (IRCSL), 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 Sri Lanka
Showing 25 of 29 entities. The full, filterable table is on the country page; every row is in the JSON below.
| Insurer | Class | Ownership | Group | Verification |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AIA Insurance Lanka | LLife | Foreign multinational | AIA Group | Verified |
| Allianz Lanka General | GGeneral (Non-life) | Foreign multinational | Allianz | Verified |
| Fairfirst Insurance | GGeneral (Non-life) | Foreign multinational | Fairfax | Verified |
| Ceylinco General | GGeneral (Non-life) | Domestic private | Ceylinco | Verified |
| Ceylinco Life | LLife | Domestic private | Ceylinco | Verified |
| Amana Takaful General | TTakaful / Islamic | Domestic private | Amana | Verified |
| Amana Takaful Life | TTakaful / Islamic | Domestic private | Amana | Verified |
| Arpico Insurance | LLife | Domestic private | Richard Pieris | Verified |
| Co-operative Insurance | GGeneral (Non-life) | Mutual / cooperative | — | Verified |
| Continental Insurance Lanka | GGeneral (Non-life) | Domestic private | Continental | Verified |
| Continental Insurance Life Lanka Ltd | LLife | Domestic private | — | Verified |
| Cooplife Insurance | LLife | Mutual / cooperative | — | Verified |
| HNB General | GGeneral (Non-life) | Domestic private | HNB | Verified |
| HNB Life PLC | LLife | Domestic private | HNB | Verified |
| Janashakthi Life | LLife | Domestic private | Janashakthi | Verified |
| Life Insurance Corporation (Lanka) Ltd. | LLife | Domestic private | — | Verified |
| LOLC General | GGeneral (Non-life) | Domestic private | LOLC | Verified |
| LOLC Life | LLife | Domestic private | LOLC | Verified |
| MBSL Insurance | CComposite | State-owned / parastatal | Merchant Bank of Sri Lanka | Verified |
| National Insurance Trust Fund (NITF) | GGeneral (Non-life) | State-owned / parastatal | Government of Sri Lanka | Verified |
| Orient Insurance | GGeneral (Non-life) | Domestic private | Orient | Verified |
| People's Insurance | GGeneral (Non-life) | State-owned / parastatal | People's Leasing | Verified |
| Sanasa General | GGeneral (Non-life) | Mutual / cooperative | Sanasa | Verified |
| Sanasa Life | LLife | Mutual / cooperative | Sanasa | Verified |
| Softlogic Life | LLife | Domestic private | Softlogic | Verified |
Regulatory intelligence: Sri Lanka
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 Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka IRCSL
- Regime
- Regulation of Insurance Industry Act No. 43 of 2000
- Register source
- IRCSL "Insurance Companies Licensed to carry on Insurance Business" (ircsl.gov.lk/insurance-companies/), retrieved 22 Sep 2026: 29 licensed insurers (long-term, general, NITF) with licence dates and footnotes up to 6 Jul 2026
- Verification
- Verified against the regulator register · IRCSL "Insurance Companies Licensed to carry on Insurance Business" (ircsl.gov.lk/insurance-companies/), retrieved 22 Sep 2026: 29 licensed insurers (long-term, general, NITF) with licence dates and footnotes up to 6 Jul 2026
No market event is recorded against this register for 2026. The regime and source above are the standing facts.
Governing legislation
- Regulation of Insurance Industry Act 43/2000, as amended · Institutional and insurance framework
The act establishes the specialist insurance supervisor. The official legal library includes amendments in 2007, 2011 and 2017.
Verification log
Reconciled against the IRCSL licensed-insurer list (29 entities, retrieved 22 Sep 2026): 25 rows matched; Allianz Lanka Life recorded as acquired and renamed Softlogic Life Insurance Lanka Limited and HNB Assurance as renamed HNB Life PLC; added Continental Insurance Life Lanka and Life Insurance Corporation (Lanka); MBSL corrected to composite (life in run-off) and NITF to general per the register.
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/sri-lanka.json
curl -s https://insurers.global/api/v1/countries/sri-lanka/insurers/pages/1.json- MCP: connect
https://insurers.global/mcpand callget_country_summarywith{ "country": "sri-lanka" }, 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.