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Proof of Reserves Explained: The New Quarterly Audit for Jamaican Exchanges and Custodians

June 28, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Jamaica’s VASP regime introduces a recurring, independently audited proof of reserves for trading platforms and custodians. Here is what it is, why it matters, what makes it credible, and how to be ready. In short: under Jamaica’s proposed VASP regime, Class A (trading platforms) and Class C (custodians) must demonstrate — at least...

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Jamaica’s Proposed VASP Licensing Regime: The Complete Guide

June 27, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Everything businesses, boards and investors need to understand about how Jamaica will license and supervise virtual asset service providers — the six license classes, capital and substance, AML/CFT, proof of reserves, fees, and the road to enactment. In short: the Financial Services Commission (FSC) has proposed a full licensing regime for virtual asset service...

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The Firm That Cannot See Itself: Why Caribbean SMBs Need Management Information, Not Just Accounts

May 22, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

This is the opening article of Pillar 3 of the Caribbean Digital Foundations Series. Pillar 2 — now complete — was the pillar of defence: the operational disciplines required to protect what the firm has built. Pillar 3 is the pillar of visibility: the operational disciplines required to know what the firm is actually doing....

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From Personal Inbox to Professional Brand: A Migration Playbook for Caribbean Family Businesses

May 17, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

The first five articles in this series were largely diagnostic and prescriptive. This article — the final piece in the Foundations pillar — is neither. It is a migration playbook for the Caribbean family business that has been operating successfully for ten, twenty, or thirty years on a tangle of personal email, founder-controlled accounts, and...

The First 90 Minutes Online: A Caribbean Start-Up Digital Identity Checklist

May 17, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

The first three articles in this series have asked Caribbean boards uncomfortable questions about digital infrastructure that has already been set up — usually badly. This article is for the entrepreneur, the family-business successor, or the partner of a newly-formed firm who has the rare opportunity to do it correctly from the first day. It...

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The Domain You Don’t Own: Why Most Caribbean SMBs Are Renting Their Digital Identity

May 17, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

In a region where business is built on relationships and trust, too many Caribbean SMBs are conducting their digital lives on infrastructure they neither own nor control. The most overlooked governance question on the average Caribbean board agenda is not cybersecurity. It is the domain name itself. The phone call no founder wants to receive...

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The AI Skill Premium : Reading the Caribbean Job Market the Way the IDB Reads It

May 10, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

In Article 2 of this series, I argued that the Caribbean’s growth model — built for sixty years on more workers rather than better-deployed workers — has expired. With working-age population growth slowing across CARICOM, productivity is now the only remaining growth lever. This week, the question becomes: which workers, with which skills, will lift...

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,...

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Auditing the Token: ISA, IFRS, and the New Assurance Mandate in the Caribbean

April 28, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Editor’s Note This is the sixth article in a twelve-part Dawgen Global series introducing DAGAF™ — the Digital Asset Governance & Assurance Framework. Articles 1 through 5 set out the inflection-point argument, mapped the foreign regulatory regimes, established the architecture of DAGAF™, and treated Pillar 1 (Governance and Board Oversight) and Pillar 3 (Tax Treatment...

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Tokenization in the Caribbean: Why Boards, Regulators, and Enterprises Must Engage Now

April 28, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Editor’s Note This is the first article in a twelve-part Dawgen Global series introducing DAGAF™ — the Digital Asset Governance & Assurance Framework — the Caribbean’s first integrated framework for the governance, assurance, tax, and risk management of tokenized real-world assets. Each article in the series will engage one dimension of the tokenization question facing...

Proof of Reserves Explained: The New Quarterly Audit for Jamaican Exchanges and Custodians

Jamaica’s Proposed VASP Licensing Regime: The Complete Guide

The Firm That Cannot See Itself: Why Caribbean SMBs Need Management Information, Not Just Accounts

From Personal Inbox to Professional Brand: A Migration Playbook for Caribbean Family Businesses

The First 90 Minutes Online: A Caribbean Start-Up Digital Identity Checklist

The Domain You Don’t Own: Why Most Caribbean SMBs Are Renting Their Digital Identity

The AI Skill Premium : Reading the Caribbean Job Market the Way the IDB Reads It

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

Auditing the Token: ISA, IFRS, and the New Assurance Mandate in the Caribbean

Tokenization in the Caribbean: Why Boards, Regulators, and Enterprises Must Engage Now

June 29, 2026How Jamaica’s VASP Framework Compares to MiCA, the UK, Singapore and the Cayman Islands

June 29, 2026The FSC VASP Consultation Explained: Timeline, Instruments and What Happens Next

June 29, 2026From Registration to Licensing: Why the FSC Chose a Tougher Model

June 29, 2026What Is a Virtual Asset Service Provider Under Jamaican Law?

June 28, 2026Proof of Reserves Explained: The New Quarterly Audit for Jamaican Exchanges and Custodians

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