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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...

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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 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...

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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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Post-Merger Integration Case Study: How a Caribbean Insurance Group Planned Day 1, One Hundred Days and Year-One Value Realization

April 20, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Why Most Caribbean Insurance Integrations Underdeliver — and What Changed Here Across the Caribbean, financial services integrations typically capture between forty and fifty-five per cent of committed year-one synergies, often at the cost of at least one material service disruption and at least one regulatory finding. The integration described in this Standard delivered seventy-one per...

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M&A Case Study: How a Caribbean Hotel Group Executed a Confidential Strategic Exit to an International Buyer

April 18, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Anchored by MERIDIAN™ — Dawgen Global’s M&A Value Architecture Model C | Context A founding-family-controlled Caribbean hotel group had reached an inflection point. The founding generation, which had assembled the portfolio property-by-property over three decades, was planning retirement. The second generation had demonstrated operational capability across two of the group’s properties but had made clear...

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Trinidad & Tobago: Energy Dependency, Fiscal Stress, and What Comes Next

April 11, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Trinidad & Tobago built one of the Caribbean’s most prosperous economies on hydrocarbons. That foundation is eroding. What boards and executives must understand about the risk landscape of the twin-island republic — and what it demands of every organisation operating within it. CARISK™ TRINIDAD & TOBAGO COUNTRY RISK INTELLIGENCE SCORECARD — 2026 Risk Domain CRI...

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Energy-Rich, Reform-Poor? Dissecting T&T’s Business Readiness Deficit in a Post-Boom Era

March 31, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

B-READY 2025 CARIBBEAN SERIES TRINIDAD & TOBAGO The Paradox of Resource Wealth and Regulatory Lag Trinidad and Tobago occupies a singular position in the Caribbean economic landscape — an energy-exporting powerhouse whose per capita income substantially exceeds most of its regional neighbours, yet whose business environment data tells a story of institutional inertia and...

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

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

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

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

Post-Merger Integration Case Study: How a Caribbean Insurance Group Planned Day 1, One Hundred Days and Year-One Value Realization

M&A Case Study: How a Caribbean Hotel Group Executed a Confidential Strategic Exit to an International Buyer

Energy-Rich, Reform-Poor? Dissecting T&T’s Business Readiness Deficit in a Post-Boom Era

July 4, 2026Cybersecurity Risks in Generative AI: Data Leakage, Prompt Injection, and Model Abuse

July 4, 2026AI Governance for Regulated Industries: Financial Services, Public Sector, Healthcare, and Utilities

July 4, 2026Third-Party AI Risk: Who Is Accountable When the Model Is Not Yours?

July 3, 2026Auditability by Design: Creating Evidence Trails for AI Decisions

July 3, 2026Continuous Validation: Why Annual Reviews Are Not Enough for AI Systems

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