What is the name of the international insurance supervisory body?

The international insurance supervisory body is the International Association of Insurance Supervisors, or IAIS.

The IAIS is a global membership organization for insurance supervisors and regulators. Established in 1994, it develops internationally recognized principles, standards, and guidance for supervising insurers and insurance groups. Its work aims to make insurance markets fair, safe, and stable while protecting policyholders.

The association does not act as a single worldwide insurance regulator. National and regional authorities still license insurers, enforce local laws, and supervise companies in their jurisdictions. Instead, the IAIS helps those authorities coordinate and work toward consistent supervisory practices, especially when an insurer operates across borders.

The IAIS also addresses global financial-stability concerns. Its Insurance Core Principles provide a widely used framework for insurance supervision, while ComFrame focuses on internationally active insurance groups. The Insurance Capital Standard supplies a comparable risk-based measure of capital adequacy for those groups. The acronym can be confused with trade associations or industry lobbying bodies, but the IAIS is specifically a forum and standard-setting body for insurance supervisors.