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BCTL register: licensed insurers in Timor-Leste
VerifiedVerified against the BCTL register, checked 4 Sept 2026.
The BCTL register for Timor-Leste as the directory holds it: 3 licensed insurers with the identifiers the register carries, ready to export as JSON.
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
BCTL register rows
All 3 entities.
| Insurer | Class | Register id | LEI | Registered | Website | Verification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sinar Mas Life Insurance, S.A | LLife | — | — | — | — | Verified |
| Sinarmas Insurance, SA | GGeneral (Non-life) | — | — | — | — | Verified |
| Federal Insurance Timor, S.A. | GGeneral (Non-life) | — | — | — | — | Verified |
Regulatory intelligence: Timor-Leste
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
- Banco Central de Timor-Leste BCTL
- Regime
- Law No. 6/2005 (Regime for the Licensing, Supervision and Regulation of Insurance Companies and Insurance Intermediaries) and BCTL Instructions for licensing general and life insurers; BCTL supervision
- Register source
- Banco Central de Timor-Leste, "Financial Institution" page, section "Insurance Companies" (Wayback Machine capture of 2026-05-09: http://web.archive.org/web/20260509233644/https://www.bancocentral.tl/en/go/financial-institution), retrieved 2026-09-26. The page says the sector has "two general insurance companies, one life insurance company" and lists Sinarmas Insurance, SA (SMI), Sinar Mas Life Insurance, S.A (SMLI) and Federal Insurance Timor, S.A. (FIT). Count: 3.
- Verification
- Verified against the regulator register · Banco Central de Timor-Leste, "Financial Institution" page, section "Insurance Companies" (Wayback Machine capture of 2026-05-09: http://web.archive.org/web/20260509233644/https://www.bancocentral.tl/en/go/financial-institution), retrieved 2026-09-26. The page says the sector has "two general insurance companies, one life insurance company" and lists Sinarmas Insurance, SA (SMI), Sinar Mas Life Insurance, S.A (SMLI) and Federal Insurance Timor, S.A. (FIT). Count: 3.
No market event is recorded against this register for 2026. The regime and source above are the standing facts.
Governing legislation
- Law No. 6/2005 · Institutional and insurance framework
Licensing, supervision and regulation of insurance companies and insurance intermediaries.
Verification log
The live bancocentral.tl site was rebuilt in 2026 and old URLs now redirect to the homepage, so the list was read from the Wayback capture of 9 May 2026. National Insurance Timor-Leste, S.A. (NITL) is excluded: BCTL revoked its licence and put it into liquidation on 29 Nov 2018 (BCTL news "National Insurance Timor-Leste placed in liquidation"). The lead's Fidelidade branch does not appear on the BCTL list. BCTL reports sector total assets of US$35.7m (Dec 2025).
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://asia-pacific.insurers.global/api/v1/countries/timor-leste.json
curl -s https://asia-pacific.insurers.global/api/v1/countries/timor-leste/insurers/pages/1.json- MCP: connect
https://asia-pacific.insurers.global/mcpand callget_country_summarywith{ "country": "timor-leste" }, 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+97f331e66662; every response carriesversion,verifiedandlicence.