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British Friendly Society Limited

Profile highlights

10 badges
  • Group spans 4 directory continents

    Fairfax: 22 markets across 4 directory continents (Asia-Pacific is one directory region). Group membership does not establish this entity’s policy availability.

  • Part of a group

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  • Group listed in 20+ markets

    Fairfax: 22 markets across 4 directory continents (Asia-Pacific is one directory region). Group membership does not establish this entity’s policy availability.

  • Composite

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  • Foreign multinational

    Based on this profile’s recorded ownership data. Not an endorsement or a financial-strength rating.

  • Group spans 10+ directory regions

    Fairfax: 22 markets across 4 directory continents (Asia-Pacific is one directory region). Group membership does not establish this entity’s policy availability.

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  • Internationally active insurance group

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  • Part of a listed group

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  • Register identifier recorded

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  • Listed in Europe

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Badge criteria
CCompositeForeign multinationalIAIGGroup listedTSX: FFHVerified against the regulator register

UK-incorporated insurer; activities: Life and annuity, Permanent health

Official sources

PRA regulator profile

This directory holds no official website for British Friendly Society Limited: the PRA register does not publish one and no sourced profile has been accepted. The register is the authoritative record of who is licensed.

Popularity index

Since 1 Sept 2026

90out of 100

Rank in United Kingdom
163 of 448 insurers
Likely range
85–93
Confidence
Low

An estimate of how often people search Google for this insurer, from the searches in which this page appears — with automated searches removed and each day adjusted for where the page ranked. Not a rating of the insurer. How the index works

At a glance

Fairfax listed on
Toronto Stock ExchangeFFH
Class of business
CompositeLicensed to write both life and non-life business under one entity.
Parent / group
FairfaxLicensed in 22 countries, 39 entities in this directory.Ultimate parent Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited is an Internationally Active Insurance Group (IAIS register), supervised group-wide by Delaware Department of Insurance, United States.
Ownership
Foreign multinationalSubsidiary of a multinational headquartered outside the continent.
Regulator
Prudential Regulation Authority (Bank of England) / FCA (PRA)bankofengland.co.uk
Local currency
GBP
Register identifiers
National ID 110013
Basis
Class: Derived from PRA permitted activitiesGroup: Compiled
Source basis
PRA List of PRA-regulated Insurers as at 1 Aug 2026
Country verification
Verified - full PRA register · PRA List of PRA-regulated Insurers as at 1 Sep 2026 (insurers-list-2609.csv, retrieved 8 Sep 2026), 502 authorisations: 448 filed here and the 54-firm Gibraltar section filed under Gibraltar
Identifiers
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