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By Ahmed Alkholifey, Governor, Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority

By Yakiv Smolii, Governor, National Bank of Ukraine

By Alok Sinha, Deloitte Risk and Financial Advisory principal, and Marco Kim, Deloitte Center for Regulatory Strategy senior consultant

By Claudia Santos Cruz, consultant, and Luís Gagliardini Graça, partner, Morais Leitão Galvão Teles Soares da Silva & Associados

By Bill Morneau, Minister of Finance, Canada

Paul Chan Mo-po, Financial Secretary, The Government of Hong Kong Special Administration Region

By Dimitar Radev, Governor, Bulgarian National Bank

The Cayman Islands continues to be one of the world's top international financial centres. It is the leading domicile for hedge funds and currently ranks second worldwide for captive insurers. The Cayman Islands is also home to licensed banks from over 30 countries, including a significant number of the top 50 banks worldwide. At the end of 2017, the Cayman Islands' ranking as an international banking centre stood at 8th and 7th in terms of cross-border assets and liabilities, respectively, with the majority of positions being cross-border providing capital to the global economy.

By Eileen Toledano, head of financial services, and Dan Gan-Zvi, banking thought leadership manager, KPMG Somekh-Chaikin

The global recession is finally being superseded by an economic upswing. To reap the full benefits of the upswing and to sustain it, we must allow continued global integration and trade. Globalization is beneficial for all our economies. It lowers prices and increases choices of products available. It brings us better technology allowing us to produce new and improved goods and services. Most importantly, it leads to a more efficient division of labour and higher productivity.