CBI register — verify Irish insurance intermediaries
Check any Irish intermediary against the official CBI register — free web lookup, plus a REST API that returns the same normalized record for 4 European registers.
The register & its authority
The Central Bank of Ireland (CBI) — Ireland's financial regulator, which registers insurance, reinsurance and ancillary insurance intermediaries under the Insurance Distribution Regulations 2018.
Retail intermediaries doing insurance distribution in or from Ireland must be registered with the Central Bank of Ireland. The CBI publishes its registers as official open data; BrokPass syncs them and returns each firm's "Registered As" authorisations as normalized categories.
The identifier: C-number
The Central Bank reference number ("C-number"): the letter C followed by 3 to 6 digits, e.g. C10015. The letter is part of the identifier.
C10015— paste it in the tool below or into the API.Verify a Irish intermediary now
Paste a C-number — the tool detects the register automatically and queries CBI's official dataset. It also accepts identifiers from the other covered registers.
Registration categories in CBI
Each CBI category is returned with its raw national code plus a normalized group bucket, so the same integration reads every country:
| National category | Meaning | Normalized group |
|---|---|---|
INSURANCE_INTERMEDIARY | Insurance intermediary (IDR 2018) | Insurance broker |
TIED_INSURANCE_INTERMEDIARY | Tied insurance intermediary | Insurance agent |
ANCILLARY_INSURANCE_INTERMEDIARY | Ancillary insurance intermediary | Ancillary insurance intermediary |
REINSURANCE_INTERMEDIARY | Reinsurance intermediary | Reinsurance intermediary |
INVESTMENT_INTERMEDIARY | Investment intermediary | Investment adviser |
CREDIT_INTERMEDIARY | Credit intermediary | Banking / credit intermediary |
Data freshness
Synced (kind: etl) — CBI publishes its register as official open data, which BrokPass ingests and re-serves; the dataset is updated daily. Every sync also feeds the change-events engine (new registrations, strike-offs, renewals, category changes).
Verify via the API
One GET request returns the normalized JSON record — same schema as every other covered register:
# 🇮🇪 Ireland — CBI (C-number) curl "https://brokpass.com/api/verify?country=IE&id=C10015" # Or let the API detect the register from the id format curl "https://brokpass.com/api/verify/auto?id=C10015"
Free demo tier: 20 requests per IP per day with standard RateLimit-* headers. Full reference in the API documentation; production plans on the pricing page.
The official source
BrokPass is an independent verification service — it is not CBI and is not endorsed by it. Results come from CBI's official open data (Source: CBI), and every record links its official source. For a legally authoritative confirmation, consult the register directly:
Official CBI register (Ireland)The other covered registers
Same API, same normalized record — one integration covers all of them.