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.

Overall, we can say that there are signs of recovery on the Croatian insurance market. Premium growth in 1H2017 was 2.7% in total (3.8% in non-life and 0.4% in life insurance) in comparison with the same period last year.

The Romanian insurance market went through a rough period, marked by several changes in legislation, especially on the MTPL segment, a field of business which is now, for the time time, regulated by a dedicated law. Although still contested in some aspects, the new Law sets up the premises for a better predictability, fair pricing ane better consumer protection.

Microinsurance helps with financial education, family planning, development of small enterprises and maintenance of health, and the products are typically designed to address the specific needs of any given population.  A virtuous cycle develops as this produces income smoothing, larger planning horizons and the development of financial wellbeing.  It is challenging because, to be affordable, scale must be achieved.

We currently expect the immediate impact of digitalization to be on sales, with an increased ability to reach clients and offer cross-selling of products.  Data could be pre-filled, which is likely to increase sales conversions. The full benefits of digitalization however will depend on the extent to which data owners are able to make use of their data, including sharing it with other parties.

One of the most discussed subjects in our market, in 2016 was the transfer of the road accident claims settlement activity from the independent evaluators to the insurance companies. Despite the surge in negative expectations, the measure resulted in an effective direct, non-intermediated interaction between insurers and their clients which led to the growing customer satisfaction with regard to the claims payment. In KOMMESK-OMIR case, in 2016, the level of satisfaction with the claims payments reached to 91%, while the quality of the settlement of losses was 90%.

We applied for membership to the Green Card international insurance system in the beginning of 2016 and are currently working in this direction. We have not yet summarized the results of the analysis of Green Card contracts' tariffs, but I do not see any bases for significant change.

There is a lot of catchup potential of the Serbian insurance market, having in mind the level of its development compared the EU average. We can expect to see a continuation of positive premium developments coupled by a healthy increase of technical provisions. This should translate into sufficient capital adequacy and a continuation of positive trends in profitability, provided that cost pressures are kept in check.