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The Caribbean Capital Structure Problem: From Bank Debt to BEDROCK™

June 12, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Why the region’s growth constraint is not a shortage of viable enterprises — but a shortage of appropriate capital structure Walk into any boardroom from Kingston to Port of Spain to Bridgetown and you will hear a version of the same conversation. The business is sound. The market opportunity is real. The asset — the...

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Unlocking Private Capital: The Role of Pension Funds, Family Offices and Institutional Investors in Caribbean Innovation Finance

May 12, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Executive Summary The Caribbean’s next wave of economic growth will require more than entrepreneurial ambition. It will require deeper pools of patient, long-term capital capable of supporting companies beyond the start-up stage and into regional and international scale. Globally, venture capital and growth equity have played a major role in financing innovation, technology adoption, new...

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Recovery Velocity Score™: How Fast Can Your Capital Architecture Recover?

May 8, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

The most consequential observation from our advisory work over the eighteen months since Hurricane Melissa is the one we did not expect to be making. We expected, going into the post-Melissa recovery period, that the Caribbean enterprises with the strongest pre-stress capital architectures would produce the strongest recoveries. We expected the diagnostics already established in...

Bank-Plus-Bond-Plus-Guarantees: Building a Resilient Caribbean Capital Source Mix

May 8, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Caymas Holdings Limited — the name is composite, the structure is real and recognisable across the regional conglomerate landscape — is a Caribbean integrated consumer-goods enterprise that has been my advisory work intermittently over a number of years. The group sits at approximately US$280 million in consolidated revenue and operates across three principal business lines....

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Maturity Mismatch: The Silent Killer of Caribbean Balance Sheets — and the Discipline of Walking the Wall Before It Arrives

May 6, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

There is a Caribbean hospitality group I will call Cascade Resorts — a composite drawn from advisory engagements with regional hotel operators, with all identifying details changed but every operational and balance sheet fact preserved. Cascade operates four properties across two Caribbean territories, employs approximately 920 staff, generates annual revenue of US$78 million, and earns...

The Single-Thread Borrower: Capital Structure Risk in Caribbean Enterprises

May 6, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

There is a Caribbean distribution business that I will call Meridian — a composite drawn from the actual files of multiple advisory engagements over the last decade, with all identifying details changed but every operational fact preserved. Meridian was started in 1989 by a husband-and-wife team. By 2024, it employed 187 people across two...

Tokenized Resort Real Estate: The Caribbean Use Case That Tests the Framework

May 5, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

In the seven previous articles of this series, we have constructed the Digital Asset Governance and Assurance Framework — DAGAF™ — pillar by pillar. We have established the case for a Caribbean-anchored framework, mapped the foreign and regional regulatory regimes Caribbean enterprises must operate within, set out the architecture of the framework as a whole,...

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...

The Legislative Reform Package: What the Twin Peaks Statutes Must Deliver

May 4, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

The legislative architecture decision The first and most consequential drafting choice is the legislative architecture itself. Article 6 of this series identified the South African Financial Sector Regulation Act of 2017 as a model — a single comprehensive statute that sets out the entire Twin Peaks framework, both peaks, the coordination mechanisms, the...

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Measuring Jamaica Against IOSCO: A Principles-Based Diagnostic of the Jamaican Capital Market

May 4, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Why the IOSCO Principles matter The International Organization of Securities Commissions is the global standard-setter for securities regulation. Its membership comprises the securities regulators of more than 130 jurisdictions, collectively responsible for over 95 per cent of the world’s securities markets. The IOSCO Objectives and Principles of Securities Regulation, first published in 1998 and...

The Caribbean Capital Structure Problem: From Bank Debt to BEDROCK™

Unlocking Private Capital: The Role of Pension Funds, Family Offices and Institutional Investors in Caribbean Innovation Finance

Recovery Velocity Score™: How Fast Can Your Capital Architecture Recover?

Bank-Plus-Bond-Plus-Guarantees: Building a Resilient Caribbean Capital Source Mix

Maturity Mismatch: The Silent Killer of Caribbean Balance Sheets — and the Discipline of Walking the Wall Before It Arrives

The Single-Thread Borrower: Capital Structure Risk in Caribbean Enterprises

Tokenized Resort Real Estate: The Caribbean Use Case That Tests the Framework

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

The Legislative Reform Package: What the Twin Peaks Statutes Must Deliver

Measuring Jamaica Against IOSCO: A Principles-Based Diagnostic of the Jamaican Capital Market

June 12, 2026The Caribbean Capital Structure Problem: From Bank Debt to BEDROCK™

June 10, 2026The Caribbean Diamond: Why Regional Firms Are Placed to Build the Future First

June 10, 2026Building the Diamond: The Seven Moves That Turn a Cracking Pyramid into a Durable Diamond

June 10, 2026Partnership Economics Reimagined: When Value Moves to the Middle, Ownership Must Move with It

June 10, 2026From Headcount to Outcomes: Pricing and Measuring Value When It No Longer Scales with Hours

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