Insurance regulator IRDA today said it is likely to finalise the guidelines for mergers and acquisitions of insurance companies in the next two months.    

"It (guideline) is most likely to be finalised in the next couple of months," IRDA Chairman J Hari Narayan told reporters in the national capital.     

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Whatever would be best in the interest of policyholders and insurance companies will be done, he added.

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