Central Bank of Ireland Portal
Last updated: 4 June 2020
The Central Bank of Ireland is committed to making it easier for institutions to engage with the Central Bank on a range of regulatory and statistical services and continues to invest in associated capabilities. With this in mind we will be launching a new platform called the Central Bank of Ireland Portal.
Initially the portal will allow authorised users to view and request changes to specific institution details. Over time, the Portal will offer additional regulatory and statistical services, including Online Returns, Fitness & Probity Applications and Industry Levy Management. Institutions will continue to use systems such as the Online Reporting (ONR) system until these additional services are available via the Portal.
The rollout to the various financial services sectors will occur on a phased basis starting with Insurance Undertakings (Life, Non-Life & Reinsurance).
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Key Concepts
A subset of the data that the Central Bank holds about your institution will be displayed on the Portal. The dataset available depends on your authorisation, but may include address information, the types of insurance classes you are authorised to provide, your connections with other institutions, and more. Please note that Pre-approved Control Function and returns data will not be displayed as part of the initial launch.
The Central Bank of Ireland Portal enables an institution to request changes to their data that is held by the Central Bank of Ireland. The specific changes that can be requested depend on the type of authorisation under which the institution is approved to operate. There are six request change types applicable to Insurance Undertakings on the Portal:
- Change of Accounting Date
- Change of Address
- Change of Auditor
- Change of Legal Advisor
- Change of Legal Name
- Extension of Insurance Classes
The Central Bank of Ireland Portal messages functionality enables secure communications between Portal users in an institution and designated teams in the Central Bank of Ireland. Portal messages will initially be used in conjunction with request changes only.
Not unlike the Central Bank’s Online Reporting (ONR) system, any institution using the Central Bank of Ireland Portal will need to have a Portal Administrator in place. The Portal Administrator will be responsible for the institution's overall use of the system by managing their institution's users' access and permissions appropriately.
The Central Bank of Ireland Portal will leverage multi-factor authentication to verify the identity of all portal users. This will help us safeguard the data we exchange and present via the Portal. Multi-factor authentication is predicated on 'something the user knows' and 'something the user has' and portal users will be required to present at least two pieces of evidence (or 'factors') to successfully access the Portal – your login details (a unique person code and a password) and a second factor method.
Users will need to self-register on the Central Bank of Ireland Portal to obtain their unique person code and to create their password and second factor method (i.e. phone call, mobile app or token).
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