About the CII
The Chartered Insurance Institute is the world's largest professional body dedicated to insurance and financial services, with over 92,000 members in 150 countries.
Our mission is to protect the interests of the public through guiding the profession. This is achieved through maintaining the professional, ethical and technical standards of those working in insurance and financial services.
We are dedicated to promoting higher standards of competence and integrity through the provision of relevant qualifications for employees at all levels and across all sectors of the industry. A robust framework of learning and development solutions enables the CII to support corporate partners and individuals across the industry. It ensures that all members comply with minimum standards and inspires many more to achieve advanced levels of technical and professional competence.
Our qualifications are developed in conjunction with practitioners and major firms, thus ensuring they meet the sector's needs. All our exams are accredited by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority which means that the public and practitioners alike can be confident of the standard and quality of our qualifications.For more information see our websites:
Latest Press Releases
- Insurers can help firms mitigate terrorist risk, argues International Institute of Strategic Studies in latest CII Thinkpiece
- The US and Asia to lead shallow recovery to long recession, predicts Chatham House in latest CII Thinkpiece
- CII Group supports the FSA’s proposals to raise professional standards
- Call to unlock access to insurance for reformed offenders
- Broke Britain, not broken Britain: young adults left most at risk in recession by Government and financial industry
- CII Thinkpiece calls for a new safety net for UK workers
- Strong backing from CII Group on financial capability action plan
- CII research paper shows public would use Money Guidance
- CII Thinkpiece questions ‘short-termism’ of the UK pensions distribution system
- CII pioneer financial sector Thinkpiece series

