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Boards, Risk and Resilience: Strengthening Governance for a More Uncertain Caribbean

May 13, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Executive Summary The Caribbean is operating in a more uncertain business environment than at any point in recent memory. Economic volatility, inflationary pressure, geopolitical disruption, cybersecurity threats, climate-related shocks, foreign exchange pressure, supply chain fragility, talent shortages, and accelerating technological change are all reshaping the landscape in which businesses, investors, regulators, and boards must operate....

From Start-Up Culture to Scale-Up Architecture: The Caribbean’s Next Innovation Challenge

May 12, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Executive Summary Across the Caribbean, entrepreneurship is widely celebrated. Governments, universities, business incubators, accelerators, chambers of commerce, development agencies, and private-sector leaders have all encouraged start-up creation. This is positive and necessary. However, the next stage of Caribbean economic transformation requires more than start-up activity. It requires scale-up architecture. A start-up culture helps people launch...

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,...

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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...

Internal Audit in Financial Services: A Caribbean Perspective

April 3, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Why Financial Services Demands a Specialist Audit Lens No sector in the Caribbean economy places more demanding or more consequential requirements on internal audit than financial services. Banks, credit unions, insurance companies, securities dealers, and development finance institutions collectively hold and manage the savings, pensions, insurance protection, and investment assets of millions of Caribbean households...

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Your Operations Are Quietly Bleeding You Dry. The Cuts You Haven’t Made Are Killing You.

March 26, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Operational inefficiency in Caribbean businesses is not a minor drag on performance — it is a structural threat to survival. TRANSCEND™’s operational restructuring domain is your emergency triage protocol. For every month a Caribbean business continues with unaddressed operational inefficiency, it is burning through the financial reserves that could fund its recovery. Operational...

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The Fiscal Reckoning: Tax, an Ageing Population, and the Digital Imperative

March 16, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

What the IDB’s 2026 data on taxation, social protection, and demographics means for Caribbean boards — and why digital transformation is the missing link The IDB’s 2026 Data Wall presents Caribbean governments and businesses with a compounding fiscal challenge: a structural tax revenue gap of 15 percentage points against OECD averages, a population ageing...

Boards, Risk and Resilience: Strengthening Governance for a More Uncertain Caribbean

From Start-Up Culture to Scale-Up Architecture: The Caribbean’s Next Innovation Challenge

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 Practice Period: A Distinctive Caribbean Approach to Regulatory Transition

Your Operations Are Quietly Bleeding You Dry. The Cuts You Haven’t Made Are Killing You.

The Fiscal Reckoning: Tax, an Ageing Population, and the Digital Imperative

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

June 1, 2026The Hidden Systems Challenge of IFRS 20: Why Data, Controls and Audit Readiness Matter

June 1, 2026IFRS 20 and EBITDA: Why Lenders, Investors and Boards Must Pay Attention

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