Financial Regulation

Covenants Were Not Designed for Hurricanes: How to Stress-Test Loan Covenants Before They Stress-Test the Enterprise — and the Heat-Map That Surfaces the Dangerous Ones

May 7, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Valley Green Agriproducts — the name is composite, the events are real — is a Caribbean integrated agribusiness group I have spent considerable time advising. The group operates approximately twelve thousand acres of fresh produce and tree-crop cultivation across two territories, runs three primary processing facilities, employs roughly six hundred and twenty staff at...

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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Investor Protection in a Twin Peaks World: From Disclosure to Outcomes

May 4, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

The shift from disclosure to outcomes The most important conceptual shift in international investor protection over the past decade is the shift from disclosure-based to outcomes-based regulation. The shift sounds technical. Its operational implications are substantial. Under disclosure-based regulation, the regulatory framework requires regulated firms to disclose material features of products and services. Risk...

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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...

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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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The DAGAF™ Architecture: A Caribbean Lens on Digital Asset Governance

April 28, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Editor’s Note This is the third 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. Article 1 set out the inflection-point argument and the case for Caribbean engagement. Article...

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Regulatory Expectations: What Caribbean Financial Regulators Now Demand from Auditors and Audit Committees

March 6, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

The Finding That Changed the Auditor’s Relationship with the Regulator The external auditor of a Caribbean insurance company had completed the annual audit and issued an unqualified opinion on the financial statements. The audit had been competently conducted, the financial statements presented fairly, and the opinion was appropriate. But when the regulator conducted its...

Covenants Were Not Designed for Hurricanes: How to Stress-Test Loan Covenants Before They Stress-Test the Enterprise — and the Heat-Map That Surfaces the Dangerous Ones

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

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

Investor Protection in a Twin Peaks World: From Disclosure to Outcomes

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

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

The DAGAF™ Architecture: A Caribbean Lens on Digital Asset Governance

Regulatory Expectations: What Caribbean Financial Regulators Now Demand from Auditors and Audit Committees

June 3, 2026Board Minutes and Tax Substance: Why Documentation Can Make or Break a Holding Company Structure

June 3, 2026When Is a Holding Company a Conduit? Understanding Beneficial Ownership and Anti-Avoidance Risk

June 3, 2026Substance Beats Formality: What the Milan Tax Court’s Luxembourg Holding Ruling Means for Cross-Border Tax Planning

June 1, 2026The Hidden Systems Challenge of IFRS 20: Why Data, Controls and Audit Readiness Matter

June 1, 2026IFRS 20 and EBITDA: Why Lenders, Investors and Boards Must Pay Attention

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