Lloyd's, the world's largest speciality insurance market, has been expanding in emerging markets to try and regain declining market share.

"Lloyd's will help to share and develop expertise across the industry to position India as an international centre for insurance and reinsurance," chairman John Nelson said in a statement.

Lloyd's, one of the most vocal of City institutions in calling for access to Europe's single market following Brexit, is planning to make a decision by April on setting up a subsidiary in the European Union.

(Reporting by Carolyn Cohn. Editing by Andrew MacAskill)