Board Governance

After Twin Peaks: A Caribbean Capital Market Worthy of International Capital

May 4, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Eleven articles have set out the case for Twin Peaks, the international evidence base, the legislative reform package, and the operational readiness work the next twelve months require. This closing article steps back and addresses the question that gives the transition its meaning: what is all of this for. The answer cannot be the cutover...

Boardroom Readiness for Twin Peaks: Twelve Months to Build What the New Regime Will Require

May 4, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

The shape of the work The boardroom readiness work for Twin Peaks divides into five categories. Each category contains several sub-streams. The categories are governance, supervisory engagement, control functions, management information, and people. They are interlocking rather than sequential. A board that prioritises governance and defers supervisory engagement will discover during the first post-cutover supervisory...

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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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Sustainability Assurance After ISSA 5000: What Boards Need to Know

May 1, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

How the move to formal sustainability assurance is reshaping oversight, evidence, and executive accountability. Boards can no longer treat sustainability disclosure as an adjacent communications activity. As assurance frameworks mature, the quality of underlying evidence, control design, governance ownership, and cross-functional coordination will determine whether sustainability reporting enhances credibility or exposes organizational weakness. From aspiration...

Boards, Fiduciaries, and the Tokenized Balance Sheet: Governance and Board Oversight in the Caribbean

April 28, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Editor’s Note This is the fourth article in a twelve-part Dawgen Global series introducing DAGAF™ — the Digital Asset Governance & Assurance Framework. Articles 1 through 3 established the inflection-point argument, mapped the foreign regulatory regimes, and set out the architecture of DAGAF™ itself. This article opens the pillar deep-dives, treating Pillar 1 — Governance...

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The DAGAF™ Architecture: A Caribbean Lens on Digital Asset Governance

April 28, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Editor’s Note This is the third article in a twelve-part Dawgen Global series introducing DAGAF™ — the Digital Asset Governance & Assurance Framework — the Caribbean’s first integrated framework for the governance, assurance, tax, and risk management of tokenized real-world assets. Article 1 set out the inflection-point argument and the case for Caribbean engagement. Article...

After Twin Peaks: A Caribbean Capital Market Worthy of International Capital

Boardroom Readiness for Twin Peaks: Twelve Months to Build What the New Regime Will Require

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

Sustainability Assurance After ISSA 5000: What Boards Need to Know

The DAGAF™ Architecture: A Caribbean Lens on Digital Asset Governance

June 8, 2026The Pyramid Is Cracking: Why the Traditional Workforce Model No Longer Adds Up

June 7, 2026Treaty Access Under Scrutiny: Substance, Beneficial Ownership and Principal Purpose Risk

June 3, 2026Board Minutes and Tax Substance: Why Documentation Can Make or Break a Holding Company Structure

June 3, 2026When Is a Holding Company a Conduit? Understanding Beneficial Ownership and Anti-Avoidance Risk

June 3, 2026Substance Beats Formality: What the Milan Tax Court’s Luxembourg Holding Ruling Means for Cross-Border Tax Planning

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