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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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IFRS Made Practical: A Dawgen Global Roadmap from First Steps to Full Compliance

October 28, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

Executive Summary International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) create a common, investor-trusted language for financial reporting. But moving from local GAAP to IFRS can feel daunting without a structured plan that balances policy judgement, systems design, data readiness, and change management. This article turns the journey into a practical roadmap—built from Dawgen Global’s multidisciplinary experience across...

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From Controls to Confidence: A Practical Guide to Risk-Based Internal Auditing (RBIA) with Dawgen IA360™

October 24, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

Executive Summary Risk-Based Internal Auditing (RBIA) aligns audit effort to what most threatens enterprise value—improving assurance quality while reducing cycle time and cost. Dawgen IA360™ operationalizes RBIA with a repeatable lifecycle: Risk Signal Scan → Assurance Blueprint → Data-Led Fieldwork → Findings→Fixes → Assurance Pack → Continuous Insight Loop. This guide provides a practical, IIA-aligned...

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From Pledges to Performance: Building an ESG Control Universe

October 4, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

Series: Internal Audit & ESG—From Assurance to Impact ESG commitments only create value when they are translated into everyday behavior, reliable data, defensible disclosures, and measurable outcomes. That translation requires a Control Universe—a structured catalogue of objectives, risks, controls, and evidence that spans the enterprise and its third parties. Internal Audit (IA) is uniquely...

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Unpacking IFRS 17: The Premium Allocation Approach (PAA) and its Challenges

July 7, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

A New Era of Insurance Reporting IFRS 17, effective from 1 January 2023, has redefined how insurance contracts are measured and reported globally. Replacing IFRS 4, this new standard aims to increase transparency, consistency, and comparability in financial statements by applying a uniform approach to insurance contract valuation. Among its key features is the Premium...

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

IFRS Made Practical: A Dawgen Global Roadmap from First Steps to Full Compliance

From Controls to Confidence: A Practical Guide to Risk-Based Internal Auditing (RBIA) with Dawgen IA360™

From Pledges to Performance: Building an ESG Control Universe

Unpacking IFRS 17: The Premium Allocation Approach (PAA) and its Challenges

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

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