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An SRO at a Crossroads: The Jamaica Stock Exchange Under Twin Peaks.

May 4, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

The structural position the JSE actually occupies Most discussions of the Jamaica Stock Exchange focus on what it does — operates a stock market, lists companies, processes trades, publishes prices. Those operational descriptions are accurate, but they obscure the structural position the JSE actually occupies in the regulatory architecture. That structural position is what the...

Three Markets, Three Lessons: What South Africa, the Netherlands and New Zealand Teach the Caribbean

May 3, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Why these three jurisdictions matter The two case studies that have already been examined in this series — Australia and the United Kingdom — are the headline references in international Twin Peaks literature. Both produced extensive operating evidence. Both have generated substantial post-implementation reform programmes. Both are well-documented in IMF Financial Sector Assessment Programs,...

The United Kingdom: From the FSA to the PRA and FCA — A Model in Continuous Reform

May 3, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

The United Kingdom adopted Twin Peaks in 2013 because its previous regulator had failed during the global financial crisis. Thirteen years later, the Prudential Regulation Authority and the Financial Conduct Authority operate the most actively reforming Twin Peaks regime in the world — pioneering outcomes-based conduct supervision through the Consumer Duty, embedding individual accountability through...

Australia: Twenty-Five Years of Twin Peaks — What Worked, and What Didn’t.

May 3, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Australia is the country that named the Twin Peaks model and has lived with it the longest. Twenty-five years of operating data — through the Asian Financial Crisis, the global financial crisis, multiple stress events and the Hayne Royal Commission — make it the single most informative case study available to Caribbean policy-makers, regulators and...

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The Practice Period: A Distinctive Caribbean Approach to Regulatory Transition

May 3, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Most countries that have adopted Twin Peaks waited for the legislation before changing how they supervise. Jamaica is doing it differently. Two years before the statutes arrive, the Bank of Jamaica and the Financial Services Commission are operating a structured Practice Period — joint examinations, jointly developed standards, capacity-building, cultural alignment — that builds the...

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The Diagnosis Behind the Reform: Why Jamaica Chose Twin Peaks, and What It Must Now Deliver

May 2, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

What actually happened at SSL On 17 January 2023, a Jamaican investor went public with allegations that her investment account at Stocks and Securities Limited — a securities dealer regulated by the Financial Services Commission for over four decades — had been systematically drained over a period of years. Within days, what began as one...

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From Sectoral Silos to Twin Peaks: Reading Jamaica’s 2026 Reform Correctly

May 2, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

When the Twin Peaks legislation is enacted in 2026, Jamaica will not be relabeling its regulators. It will be re-architecting how the entire financial system is supervised. Boards, securities dealers, insurers, pension trustees and listed issuers that read this reform as a name change will arrive at the cutover unprepared. Those that read it correctly...

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The Questions High-Performing Audit Committees Should Be Asking in 2026

May 1, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

A practical agenda for audit committees facing more complexity across financial reporting, sustainability, fraud, and technology. Audit committees in 2026 need sharper questions, not just fuller agendas. Their effectiveness increasingly depends on whether they can probe evidence quality, challenge assumptions, and connect emerging issues across reporting, risk, technology, and assurance. Why better questions matter Audit...

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Sustainability Assurance as a Trust Imperative

May 1, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Why assurance over non-financial reporting is increasingly about credibility, capital, and institutional confidence. Sustainability assurance is becoming a trust imperative because stakeholders increasingly rely on non-financial information to make decisions. The issue for leadership is not only compliance, but whether the organization can sustain confidence in its claims across markets and scrutiny levels. Trust has...

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AI in Audit: Opportunity, Oversight, and Executive Accountability

May 1, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

How leaders should think about AI in assurance without confusing technical capability with evidential reliability. AI is changing how audit and assurance work is performed, but it also raises questions about evidence quality, model governance, documentation, and accountability. Executives need a governance lens, not just a productivity lens. The promise and the temptation AI...

An SRO at a Crossroads: The Jamaica Stock Exchange Under Twin Peaks.

Three Markets, Three Lessons: What South Africa, the Netherlands and New Zealand Teach the Caribbean

The United Kingdom: From the FSA to the PRA and FCA — A Model in Continuous Reform

Australia: Twenty-Five Years of Twin Peaks — What Worked, and What Didn’t.

The Practice Period: A Distinctive Caribbean Approach to Regulatory Transition

The Diagnosis Behind the Reform: Why Jamaica Chose Twin Peaks, and What It Must Now Deliver

From Sectoral Silos to Twin Peaks: Reading Jamaica’s 2026 Reform Correctly

The Questions High-Performing Audit Committees Should Be Asking in 2026

Sustainability Assurance as a Trust Imperative

AI in Audit: Opportunity, Oversight, and Executive Accountability

June 18, 2026The Trust Dividend: Why Continuously Governed Organisations Win

June 18, 2026The Governance Maturity Journey: From Reactive to Continuous

June 18, 2026From Data to Decisions: Reinventing the Board Risk Report

June 18, 2026Evidence on Demand: Why Audit-Ready Is the New Always-Ready

June 16, 2026ESG Without the Greenwashing | Dawgen TRUST360™

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