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20 Insurance Companies Fail to Raise Paid-up Capital

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20 Insurance Companies Fail to Raise Paid-up Capital
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February 24: The Insurance Board has decided not to extend the deadline given to the insurance companies to raise their paid-up capital after its expiry in mid-January. The insurance regulatory board is mulling to take appropriate steps after the companies failed to raise their paid-up capital by issuing bonus shares to the shareholders from the profit earned in the last fiscal year.

A recent meeting of the board of directors of the insurance regulatory body decided not to extend the deadline after the companies failed to meet the deadline twice.

According to Chiranjibi Chapagain, president of the Insurance Board, if the companies fail to meet the capital ceiling, they should distribute rights shares to the shareholders.

The Insurance Board had directed the country’s life insurance companies to raise the capital to Rs 2 billion and non-life insurance companies to Rs 1 billion by the end of the last fiscal year. However, the regulatory board had extended the deadline till mid-January as the companies failed to raise the capital on time.

Even after extension of the deadline for the second time, 20 companies are yet to raise the capital as directed by the Insurance Board.

Currently, there are a total of 19 life insurance companies operating in Nepal. Of them, 10 companies have already raised the capital.

Likewise, of the 20 non-life insurance companies, 13 are yet to raise the paid-up capital as per the direction.  

 

 

 

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