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UpcomingInsurers: outsourcing (national)Last checked 11 November 2026

Outsourcing register (insurers)

A regulatory return listed by the Central Bank of Ireland (CBI), Ireland.

The firm's register of its outsourcing arrangements: the service providers, the functions outsourced, sub-contractors and alternative providers. The Central Bank uses it in risk assessments, to find third-party concentration risk and to identify quickly incidents at a firm that may be early warnings of wider problems. Source

Official title: Outsourcing Register - Insurance

The facts

Who files
Insurers whose PRISM impact rating is Medium Low or above, and other designated and notified firms; the 2027 collection is limited to firms that submitted in 2024. Source
How often
Collected in cycles notified by the Central Bank (2024; next February 2027). Source
Deadline
28 February 2027 for the 2027 collection (reference date 31 December 2026). Source
Format
Excel. Excel register template uploaded to the Central Bank of Ireland Portal, which runs basic validations on upload. Source
How it is filed
Filing routes recorded for the CBI: Central Bank of Ireland Portal (formerly the Online Reporting System, ONR); MiFIR transaction reporting Machine to Machine channel; Online Reporting System (ONR), now linked as 'Credit Union Auditor Reporting'; Email to the Central Bank. See how firms file with the CBI.
Status
UpcomingThe Central Bank paused this domestic collection in 2025 for the first DORA register of information submissions and will resume it in February 2027, with a deadline of 28 February 2027 and reference date 31 December 2026, for firms that submitted a register in the 2024 cycle. Source
Group
Insurers: outsourcing (national)

Templates (7)

The tables and forms inside the return. Plain name first, the CBI's code in brackets.

  • R01 (R01)
  • Entity Signing (Entity Signing)
  • Supervised Entity (Supervised Entity)
  • Service Provider (Service Provider)
  • Function Information (Function Information)
  • Sub-Contractor (Sub-Contractor)
  • Alternative Provider (Alternative Provider)

Data sheets of the Insurance Outsourcing Register, after the Cover and Instructions sheets; an 'Additional General Information' sheet also exists. Source

Validation rules

No published validation rules were found for this return. The guidance notes say the Portal runs basic validations on upload and give data types per field, but no rule list is published. Source

Public data

No published data from this return was found. No published data from this return was found on the Central Bank pages checked. Source

Official documents (3)

The CBI's own files, with the size and SHA-256 fingerprint of each as downloaded on 11 November 2026, so anyone can tell whether a copy is the same version.

Sources

Every page and document this return's facts were read from.

Knowing exactly what is collected, in what format and under which rules is the first step to real-time supervision. Line4 builds SupTech software for financial regulators that runs checks like these as each return arrives.

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Contains Irish Public Sector Information from the Central Bank of Ireland (https://www.centralbank.ie), copyright Central Bank of Ireland, re-used under the Bank's licence for re-use of public sector information (https://www.centralbank.ie/fns/re-use-of-public-sector-information). This library summarises it in plain English and links the originals; the Central Bank of Ireland does not endorse this library.

Last checked 11 November 2026.