We have in this webinar participation from Maria Kharlashkina, deputy head of strategy of the Moscow Exchange, and Vladimir Shapovalov, at the Financial markets development department of the Central bank of Russia.

They are sharing with us their impressions of 2017 and their expectations for 2018.

Specific path new regulator will take is still being worked out by officials.

The newly established national financial regulatory body is designed to be the top-level executor and coordinator of the State Council's macroeconomic policies rather than to only safeguard the inflated financial sector, according to experts directly involved in the committee's preparatory work.