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Composite insurance companies in Central America and the Caribbean

10 licensed composite insurers, 77% of the 13 insurance entities supervised by the National superintendencies of Central America and the Caribbean (SUGESE Costa Rica, SIB Guatemala, CNBS Honduras, SSF El Salvador, SIBOIF Nicaragua, SSRP Panama, SIS Dominican Republic, CBTT Trinidad and Tobago among them); Bermuda Monetary Authority; Cayman Islands Monetary Authority. Licensed to write both life and non-life business under one entity.

CompanyClassParent / groupOwnershipRegulatorVerificationPopularity
ASSA Compania de Seguros (Panama)
Registered as ASSA Compañia de Seguros, S.A.
CCompositeGrupo ASSADomestic privateNational supervisorsPartial—
Assuria
Suriname
CCompositeAssuriaDomestic privateNational supervisorsPartial—
Ficohsa Seguros (Honduras)
Registered as Interamericana de Seguros, S.A. (trades as Ficohsa Seguros under a 2010 brand-licence contract with Banco Ficohsa)
CCompositeFicohsaDomestic privateNational supervisorsPartial—
INS (Instituto Nacional de Seguros, Costa Rica)State-owned
Registered as Instituto Nacional de Seguros
CCompositeCosta Rican StateState-owned / parastatalNational supervisorsPartial—
Mapfre BHD (DR)BME
Registered as MAPFRE- BHD Seguros, S.A.
CCompositeMapfreIAIGForeign multinationalNational supervisorsPartial—
Seguros El Roble (Guatemala)CCompositeGrupo Financiero IndustrialDomestic privateNational supervisorsPartial—
Seguros G&T (Guatemala)CCompositeG&TDomestic privateNational supervisorsPartial—
Seguros LAFISE
Nicaragua/CA
CCompositeLAFISEDomestic privateNational supervisorsPartial—
Seguros Suramericana PanamaBVC: GRUPOSURA
Registered as Seguros Suramericana, S.A.
CCompositeSuraForeign multinationalNational supervisorsPartial—
Seguros Universal (DR)
Dominican Republic; Registered as Seguros Universal, S. A.
CCompositeUniversalDomestic privateNational supervisorsPartial—

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About composite insurers in Central America and the Caribbean

How many composite insurers are licensed in Central America and the Caribbean?

10 of the 13 licensed insurance entities in Central America and the Caribbean are classified as composite (77%), according to the National supervisors register as reflected in this directory (partially verified - registers in hand for 6 of the 11 member jurisdictions the rows cover (panama ssrp, el salvador ssf, dominican republic sis, trinidad and tobago cbtt, barbados fsc, jamaica fsc); honduras and costa rica confirmed only from the supervisor's supervised-entity and audited-statement lists, not a licence register; guatemala (sib) and suriname (cbvs) blocked by cloudflare and nicaragua (siboif) unreachable).

Who regulates composite insurers in Central America and the Caribbean?

National superintendencies of Central America and the Caribbean (SUGESE Costa Rica, SIB Guatemala, CNBS Honduras, SSF El Salvador, SIBOIF Nicaragua, SSRP Panama, SIS Dominican Republic, CBTT Trinidad and Tobago among them); Bermuda Monetary Authority; Cayman Islands Monetary Authority (National supervisors). Regime: Separate national regimes in each jurisdiction; Bermuda and the Cayman Islands host the region's captive and reinsurance business.

Who owns the composite insurers in Central America and the Caribbean?

Of the 10 licensed composite insurers in Central America and the Caribbean, 7 are domestic private companies, 2 are subsidiaries of foreign multinational groups (Mapfre, Sura), and 1 is state-owned or parastatal (Costa Rican State), as recorded in the register.

Data: /api/v1/countries/central-america-and-caribbean.json (filter by class = "composite"). Licence CC BY 4.0, attribute KAFS North America.