The institutions
behind trust.

Each country has its own supervisor, from Kenya's Insurance Regulatory Authority (IRA) and Nigeria's NAICOM to South Africa's Prudential Authority and FSCA. Fourteen French-speaking West and Central African states share the CIMA code with national supervision.

In the EU and EEA each member state has a national competent authority (ACPR in France, BaFin in Germany, the Central Bank of Ireland, IVASS in Italy and so on) and EIOPA maintains the central Register of Insurance Undertakings. The UK and Gibraltar insurers here are on the Bank of England PRA list, Swiss insurers on the FINMA register, and non-EEA markets such as Türkiye, Serbia and Ukraine are supervised nationally.

Each market has a national supervisor: APRA and ASIC in Australia, the Insurance Authority in Hong Kong, the Financial Services Agency in Japan, IRDAI in India, Bank Negara Malaysia with the Labuan FSA, the Monetary Authority of Singapore, the NFRA in China, the FSC and FSS in Korea and the Insurance Authority in Saudi Arabia among them. Most publish a register of licensed insurers; markets whose register was retrieved for this release are marked verified, the rest are compiled from market knowledge.

Each country has a national supervisor: SUSEP in Brazil (with ANS for health plans), the Superintendencia de Seguros de la Nación (SSN) in Argentina, the CMF in Chile, the Superintendencia Financiera (SFC) in Colombia, the SBS in Peru, the SCVS in Ecuador, the APS in Bolivia, SUDEASEG in Venezuela and the central banks of Paraguay and Uruguay. Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Peru were reconciled against their registers or industry directories for this release; the other markets are compiled from market knowledge.

In the United States insurance is regulated by the states: each has an insurance department (the Texas Department of Insurance, the New York DFS, the California DOI and so on) coordinated through the NAIC, with the Federal Insurance Office at the Treasury monitoring, and captives are licensed by their domicile state, led by Vermont. Canada’s federally incorporated insurers answer to OSFI and provincially incorporated ones to the AMF in Québec, FSRA in Ontario, BCFSA and the other provincial regulators. Mexico’s CNSF supervises insurers and surety companies, and the Bermuda Monetary Authority licenses Bermuda’s commercial reinsurers and captives. For this release Canada was reconciled against the OSFI register, Mexico against the AMIS directory and CNSF padrón, the United States against the Texas licence exports and the Vermont captive register, and Bermuda against ABIR membership; the Central American and Caribbean rows are compiled from market knowledge.

Open the regulator website linked in the table and look for its register of licensed entities, usually published annually in a gazette or on a "licensed companies" page. This directory links every insurer to its regulator and records which register it was checked against.

Most supervisors publish a full list once a year and announce licence grants or revocations in between. Insurers Global re-verifies against the published register and records the date on each country page.