Cabinet nod for insurance regulator’s global MoU on info exchange

New Delhi, July 19 (IANS) The Union Cabinet on Wednesday gave ex-post facto approval for insurance regulator Irdai's admission as a signatory to IAIS Multilateral Memorandum of Understanding, a cabinet communique said.

"With increasing integration of financial market and growing number of internationally active insurance companies there is an increased need for mutual cooperation and information exchange between insurance industry supervisors," it said.

"In this background the IRDAI had become a signatory member of the International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS) Multilateral Memorandum of Understanding.

"The MMoU is a statement of its signatories' intent to cooperate in the field of information exchange as well as procedure for handling information requests," it said.

The IAIS is a global framework of cooperation and information exchange between insurance supervisors.

"In the absence of any bilateral agreements, the IAIS MMoU provides a formal basis for cooperation and information exchange between the signatory authorities regarding the supervision of insurance companies where cross-border aspects arise," the Finance Ministry said.

The scope of the IAIS MMoU is wider than the existing agreements as it also provides for supervision of other regulated entities such as insurance intermediaries under Anti Money Laundering, (AML) and Combating the Finance of Terrorism (CFT), it added.

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