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Gain Insider Insights from Former US Deputy National Security Advisor K.T. McFarland at RF Economic Outlook 2025

We are thrilled to announce that Dr. Kimberley Amirault-Ryan, a world-renowned performance psychology expert for elite athletes, will be a keynote speaker at the RF Cayman Economic Outlook Conference on March 14, 2025, at the Kimpton Seafire Resort. The one-day conference is presented by RF Bank & T

Andrew Busch, Economic Futurist and 1st Chief Market Intelligence Officer for the US Government, hoped to give some context for the audience when it came to the economy, allowing people to look five to ten years down the road.

Before starting off on any expedition climbing some of the highest mountains in the world, Adventurer, Medic & Author, Jeff Evans, said that he had to establish what he termed the “expeditionary mindset”, establishing expectations and what success and failure looked like, which meant communicating

Ron Insana, CNBC Senior Analyst and Commentator & Bestselling Author who was named as a top business journalist for the 20th century, worried about the US Federal Reserve’s plans to hike interest rates in the near future, a move that he believed would be a “major policy mistake”

Steve McIntosh, CEO Cayman Finance, gave a refresher on the Global Minimum Tax, an initiative by G20 and OECD which aimed to “harmonise” a minimum tax level across nations and deal with profit shifting activity by multi-nationals with a revenue of more than Euro 750 million.

Serial Entrepreneur & Innovator, Future of digital assets and the next wave of Web 3, Kevin Hobbs, said he represented an industry that was about saving money, creating jobs in an emerging industry and technologies and which would hopefully be the future of finance.

Marla Dukharan, Economist and Leading Advisor on the Caribbean, spoke about the “colossal policy failure” that had led the world’s economies through a rollercoaster ride ending with governments slamming the breaks on massive economic stimulus