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

June 1, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Executive Summary IFRS 20, Regulatory Assets and Regulatory Liabilities, will not merely change technical accounting for rate-regulated entities. It may also change how performance is measured, interpreted, financed, and communicated. For many regulated companies, IFRS 20 may affect reported revenue, operating profit, EBITDA, funds from operations, working capital, leverage ratios, interest cover, return measures, and...

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Provisions Are Predictions: Why Caribbean Boards Must Govern Reserves Before the Audit

May 30, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

This is the third of four papers in The Caribbean Actuarial Imperative, an editorial series from Dawgen Global — an independent, integrated, multidisciplinary professional services firm spanning eleven service disciplines across more than fifteen Caribbean territories. The first paper introduced the Long‑Horizon Test for identifying the board decisions whose financial consequences extend beyond the quarterly...

D·ASSURE™ Whitepaper: Dawgen Global’s Seven-Pillar Framework for Modern Caribbean Audit Quality

May 25, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

The methodology is here. The framework is yours to apply. Dawgen Global has released the D·ASSURE™ Whitepaper, the standing companion to Article 12 and the series finale of The Caribbean Audit Imperative. The Whitepaper presents D·ASSURE™ — the Dawgen Assurance Standard for Unified Risk-based Engagements — Dawgen Global’s proprietary seven-pillar methodology for conducting modern audit...

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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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Inside the Numbers: How CSM Run-off, Risk Adjustment, and Onerous-Contract Testing Are Quietly Reshaping Earnings

May 21, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Three IFRS 17 mechanics that most Caribbean boards do not yet fully understand — and which determine reported profits more than any underwriting decision Three IFRS 17 mechanics — the Contractual Service Margin run-off pattern, the risk adjustment calibration, and the onerous contract test — together drive the majority of reported insurance earnings under...

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The Three-Bucket Doctrine: How Washington Just Re-Drew the Map of Digital Assets, and What It Means for the Caribbean Regulator’s Desk

May 12, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

If Article 1 of this series was the news, this article is the map. The CLARITY Act’s most consequential design choice is the explicit division of all digital assets into three regulatory buckets, each with a defined supervisor. The bucket a token falls into determines who regulates it, what disclosures attach to it, who can...

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...

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,...

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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Tokenization and the Caribbean Tax Code: The Treatment Questions Nobody Has Answered

April 28, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Editor’s Note This is the fifth article in a twelve-part Dawgen Global series introducing DAGAF™ — the Digital Asset Governance & Assurance Framework. Articles 1 through 4 set out the inflection-point argument, mapped the foreign regulatory regimes, established the architecture of DAGAF™, and treated Pillar 1 (Governance and Board Oversight) in detail. This article treats...

Caribbean Regulatory Affairs

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

Provisions Are Predictions: Why Caribbean Boards Must Govern Reserves Before the Audit

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

Inside the Numbers: How CSM Run-off, Risk Adjustment, and Onerous-Contract Testing Are Quietly Reshaping Earnings

The Three-Bucket Doctrine: How Washington Just Re-Drew the Map of Digital Assets, and What It Means for the Caribbean Regulator’s Desk

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

Three Markets, Three Lessons: What South Africa, the Netherlands and New Zealand Teach the Caribbean

Australia: Twenty-Five Years of Twin Peaks — What Worked, and What Didn’t.

Tokenization and the Caribbean Tax Code: The Treatment Questions Nobody Has Answered

June 12, 2026Backing: Why Appreciating Assets Change the Credit Mathematics

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

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