Register of insurers

An insurer offers insurance. There are various types of insurers in the Netherlands, namely life insurers, non-life insurers, funeral expenses and benefits in kind insurers, and reinsurers. Reinsurers are listed in a separate register. Read more about the types of insurers  and the supervision of insurers.

Insurers wishing to operate in the Netherlands must have a licence from DNB. But there are a few exceptions. There are also institutions offering insurance on the basis of a European passport . They have a licence in another country of the European Economic Area (EEA). You can also find this information in the register. There are licences for the provision of insurance in a particular sector, such as health insurance or car insurance. Sometimes insurers hold several licences.

Before entering a name, you may wish to select a financial service from the “Financial service” dropdown list. Then enter a name or part thereof in the “Statutory name / trade name” search field and click on Search. If you are unsure about the correct spelling of a firm’s name, use an asterisk (*) for part of the name. If you leave the search field empty, your search will produce the full list. If you then click on a search result, you will see the details for that firm.

As a result of the expiry of the transitional period after Brexit, the public DNB Financial Supervision Act (Wft) register for incoming and outgoing notifications from/to the UK has been updated as of 1 January 2021. This means, for instance, that notifications entered in the Wft register for cross-border services to or from the UK, including Gibraltar, via passporting rights or the establishment of a branch, have been removed from the Wft Register. You can find an overview of the notifications that have been deleted here.

Life and non-life insurers having their registered office in a non-EU Member State (third-country insurers) are no longer permitted to carry on the business of direct insurer by providing cross-border services to the Netherlands.

Direct third-country insurers are permitted –under certain conditions- to offer cross-border services to the Netherlands as long as these services are limited to reinsurance. See the link for a further explanation.

The ban on the provision of services to the Netherlands by third-country insurers entered into force on 17 March 2021. The third-country insurers affected by this ban could make use of the transitional regime until six months after this amendment to the law came into force. As a result, the public DNB Financial Supervision Act (Wft) register for incoming services of third-country insurers has been updated. The third-country insurers that make use of the transitional regime are included in the Wft register. The third-country insurers who did not apply for the transitional regime have been removed from the register. An overview of the registrations removed from the Wft register can be found here.