Most important are the proactive consumer protection actions. In this respect, ASF has set up a direction to supervise insurers' business conduct. This directorate develops supervision tools aligned to the risk-based supervision principle. Among these tools we mention thematically supervision, mystery shopping, social media monitoring, receiving and processing of bad conduit public alert information. We also put special emphasis on operational risks' management in insurance companies. These risks are in fact those that affect consumers. Employees behavior, lack of processes or inaccurate processes, internal or external frauds, lack of business continuity, IT and cybercrime problems all relate to operational risks and must be managed preventively to protect consumers.

Our customers are extremely happy with our services compared to their partners in Western Europe because they cannot understand them. It is definitely a matter of culture. With us, they feel that they can speak the same language and that we can understand them. So, our aim in the future will be to remain, invest and expand our activities in our region. We want to be a regional player. We try however to bring and apply in our region the best claims handling practices of the biggest loss adjusting groups in Europe they have.

We expect an increase of the investment life insurance penetration in Russia due to the new legislation on unit-linked, which will allow us to offer new products without guarantee in the context of falling rates. The source for potential growth is the inclusion of life insurance in the new pension system, where insurers could become operators of voluntary pension savings along with non-government pension funds.

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"Most of the South Eastern Europe countries lack quality actuarial education. On the other hand, each country has different rules for organizing the educational circles for actuaries. It is mostly a matter of scale: there are not enough persons interested by an actuarial career in each country, meaning that it is not cost effective to organize every year educational programs for the actuarial field. We need to set up some regional center for actuarial education," Klime POPOSKI, President Insurance Supervision Agency, Macedonia stated for XPRIMM in a video interview recorded on the occasion of "IIF 2018 - CEE & SEE - Regional Actuarial Insurance Conference".

For the end of 2017 we expect that the positive trend in both life and non-life insurance will continue, with an emphasized trend of increasing the Unit-link life insurance and reducing the relative participation of the insurance brokers in the intermediation.

Technology and digitization are the most important drivers to close the protection gap for agriculture in developing countries. As in developing countries agriculture is often small-scale, it needs technology to design and sell insurance products in an efficient way.