Empowering Home Ownership

We’ve helped more than 100,000 Australian households achieve home ownership by providing Lenders Mortgage Insurance (LMI).

Lenders Mortgage Insurance

Our vision is to promote access to home ownership, creating long-term value and security for families and communities. We achieve this by providing credit risk solutions that assist lenders in making residential mortgage loans to more Australian households.

Why Arch MI?

Client Focus

We work with our lending partners to create tailored credit risk solutions.

Digital Process

We integrate with lender and broker systems to enable a seamless digital experience.

Data Insights

We share data-driven learnings to help our partners do what they do best.

Our Services

Our LMI solutions are designed to mitigate credit risk. We offer a range of options including single and staged premium, as well as bulk (or pool) and layered cover.


What Matters

Our People

We care about supporting our partners to make home ownership achievable for Australian households. Many of our people come from lenders so they understand the pressures and requirements of our partners. We find solutions, think outside the box and work hard to achieve a pathway to ‘yes’.

Our Heritage

Arch LMI is part of the International Mortgage Insurance segment in Arch Capital Group Ltd., an S&P-500 company. Arch is an Insurer, Reinsurer and Mortgage Insurer and our purpose is to promote progress and inspire our clients, employees, investors and communities to achieve their greatest potential.

Our Expertise

We draw upon a breadth of global experience and expertise. We effectively use our resources to craft tailored offerings and long-term solutions to meet our partners’ needs. We continually challenge ourselves, our partners and the market to find better, simpler and smarter ways to do business.

Facts about LMI

LMI Fact Sheet

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Information

Arch LMI as used on this website refers generically to our mortgage insurance operations in Australia.  Arch’s mortgage insurance operations in Australia are conducted through Arch Lenders Mortgage Indemnity Limited (Arch Indemnity) (ABN 60 074 042 934), our licensed LMI insurer for Australia with an Australian Credit Licence 388077, and Arch LMI Pty Ltd (ABN 60 601 356 174), which acts as a service company for Arch Indemnity and holds AFSL 549020.

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has authorised Arch Lenders Mortgage Indemnity Limited as a lenders mortgage insurer.


Code Statement

Arch Lenders Mortgage Indemnity Limited has adopted the General Insurance Code of Practice (“the Code”). The Code commits general insurers to a high standard of service and aims to promote better and more informed relationships between insureds and their customers.

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