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Are You Bond-Ready? The BEDROCK™ Bond Readiness Index

June 14, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

The series finale — a structured way to measure whether your enterprise is ready to bring an asset-anchored bond Eleven articles ago, this series began with a frustration familiar to every Caribbean enterprise of substance: the gap between the capital such a business deserves and the capital the market actually offers it. We named the...

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Oversight: Governance Machinery for Investor Protection | BEDROCK™ Framework

June 13, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Pillar O of the BEDROCK™ Framework: trustees, regulatory alignment, and board accountability — the machinery that enforces every promise the instrument makes By the close of Article 5, the BEDROCK™ instrument was substantially built: an appreciating asset, soundly engineered, fully disclosed, and stress-proofed against the Caribbean’s storms, currency shocks, and cycles. A prudent investor...

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Engineering Asset-Anchored Bonds: Designing Bonds That Match the Asset

June 13, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Pillar E of the BEDROCK™ Framework: seniority, tenor, coupons, security, covenants, and reserves — the architecture that converts an asset thesis into an investable instrument Pillar B closed with a warning disguised as a transition: a qualifying asset is only the beginning. An appreciating beachfront property, a scarce logistics site, a contracted energy installation —...

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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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Financial Reinsurance for Caribbean Carriers: A Practical Guide to Surplus Relief and Capital Optimisation

May 21, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

A practical guide to surplus relief and capital optimisation — the structures, the IFRS 17 treatment, the risk transfer test, and the regulator considerations regional boards should anticipate Financial reinsurance is one of the most powerful capital-management tools available to an insurer, and one of the least understood at Caribbean board level. Done well, it...

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IFRS 17, Three Years On: What Caribbean Insurers Got Right, What They Got Wrong, and What Comes Next

May 20, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

The technical transition is largely complete. The strategic transition is not. An honest assessment of where the region stands — and the five priorities for the next 24 months IFRS 17 became effective for accounting periods beginning 1 January 2023. For Caribbean insurers, that meant three years of implementation work, hundreds of millions in cumulative...

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Secondary Markets and Private Company Liquidity: A Future Opportunity for the Caribbean

May 12, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Executive Summary Private companies across the Caribbean often represent substantial economic value, but that value is frequently locked inside illiquid ownership structures. Founders, early investors, family shareholders, employees, and private capital providers may hold interests in growing businesses for many years without a clear pathway to realize part of that value. Globally, this liquidity challenge...

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Anchored Expectations: How Caribbean Entrepreneurs Should Read the New Monetary Landscape

May 10, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

In Article 6 of this series, I argued that the capital structure which worked in 2021 will not work in 2026 — and that the refinance, the hedge, and the equity raise belong on the next board agenda. This week, the series turns to a less visible but equally consequential question: what does it mean...

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....

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...

Are You Bond-Ready? The BEDROCK™ Bond Readiness Index

Engineering Asset-Anchored Bonds: Designing Bonds That Match the Asset

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

Financial Reinsurance for Caribbean Carriers: A Practical Guide to Surplus Relief and Capital Optimisation

IFRS 17, Three Years On: What Caribbean Insurers Got Right, What They Got Wrong, and What Comes Next

Anchored Expectations: How Caribbean Entrepreneurs Should Read the New Monetary Landscape

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

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

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