Matthew Sellers

Insurance Business Canada

Matthew Sellers

Journalist

7 years experience1,453,598 Total views on Insurance Business in 2025

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Cyber Insurance Macroeconomics Market Analysis

Matthew Sellers is a financial journalist at Insurance Business, bringing an Economics degree and a sharp analytical instinct to his coverage of the insurance market. His work spans the hard news that moves the industry — from catastrophe events and cyber threats to inflation, litigation, marine risk, and the macroeconomic pressures bearing down on insurers, brokers, and their clients.

Matthew tracks the regulatory developments, market shifts, and emerging risks that insurance professionals need to understand — translating complex signals into clear, accessible reporting for the brokers, underwriters, and industry leaders who need to know where the market is heading, and why.

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Intact to run European specialty business from London via new UK branch

The former RSA will fold its UK and continental specialty books into one European business and plans a regulated London branch from January

Which countries love their pets the most? Follow the money (and the insurance policies)

Sweden insures its pets like family, Americans outspend the world and Australians splash out the most per animal. For insurers, the gap between love and cover is the opportunity

Canada's pet insurance gap widens as US premiums jump almost 20%

Don’t we love our cats as much as the Americans? Fewer than 4% of our pets are insured and growth has slowed to a five-year low

Binance’s US$6.3bn hack began with a fake job offer, and it had no cyber cover

The exchange’s incident report traces a five-month North Korean campaign built on bogus recruiters and tampered developer tools, leaving its own reserves to absorb a record loss

CTE study puts brain disease in three of four NFL players - Canada’s sports insurers are watching

A Boston University estimate that three in four late NFL players had CTE is the most credible prevalence figure yet - and carriers placing hockey, Canadian football and rugby are already tightening terms

We’re too big for you to insure – the risks in Anthropic’s monster IPO

The offering includes a public offer to Canadian investors, and it lands as OSFI gets ready to tighten oversight of how insurers use third-party AI

Aon, Marsh, WTW: are they really brokerages any more?

All three now describe themselves in terms far wider than broking. Their segment figures show two of them do still earn most of their revenue and profit from it. The third does not

New Mexico wallops Meta with a fine bigger than the GDP of many countries

Facebook privacy penalty was calculated per person who could have seen a misleading statement. Canadian insurers with clients selling into the US should look closely at how it was built