The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) has formed a panel to review the regulations pertaining to insurance marketing firms. The committee is headed by Suresh Mathur, Executive Director (insurance marketing firms), IRDAI, with nine more members.

The terms of reference include revisiting the IRDAI (Registration of Insurance Marketing Firms) Regulations, 2015, recommendations for issuing guidelines on the areas on which the regulations are silent and on further strengthening the channel by taking up products which fall under the jurisdiction of other financial sector regulators.

The new distribution channel of insurance marketing firms was introduced in 2015 by IRDAI, with the objective of increasing insurance penetration in the country through an area-wise registration approach. The channel has now been in operation for three years.

The committee will come up with recommendations before July 31, 2018, according to an order issued by IRDAI.

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