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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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An SRO at a Crossroads: The Jamaica Stock Exchange Under Twin Peaks.

May 4, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

The structural position the JSE actually occupies Most discussions of the Jamaica Stock Exchange focus on what it does — operates a stock market, lists companies, processes trades, publishes prices. Those operational descriptions are accurate, but they obscure the structural position the JSE actually occupies in the regulatory architecture. That structural position is what the...

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,...

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...

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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The Practice Period: A Distinctive Caribbean Approach to Regulatory Transition

May 3, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Most countries that have adopted Twin Peaks waited for the legislation before changing how they supervise. Jamaica is doing it differently. Two years before the statutes arrive, the Bank of Jamaica and the Financial Services Commission are operating a structured Practice Period — joint examinations, jointly developed standards, capacity-building, cultural alignment — that builds the...

Boards, Fiduciaries, and the Tokenized Balance Sheet: Governance and Board Oversight in the Caribbean

April 28, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Editor’s Note This is the fourth article in a twelve-part Dawgen Global series introducing DAGAF™ — the Digital Asset Governance & Assurance Framework. Articles 1 through 3 established the inflection-point argument, mapped the foreign regulatory regimes, and set out the architecture of DAGAF™ itself. This article opens the pillar deep-dives, treating Pillar 1 — Governance...

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Independence: The Cornerstone of Internal Audit Credibility

April 1, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

The One Quality Internal Audit Cannot Afford to Lose Of all the attributes that define a high-performing internal audit function — technical competence, methodological rigour, technological capability, and communication effectiveness — independence stands alone as the one quality whose absence cannot be compensated for by any other strength. An internal auditor who lacks independence...

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The Strategic Imperative of Internal Audit: Why Every Organisation Needs a Robust IA Function

April 1, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

The Unsung Guardian of Organisational Value In boardrooms across the Caribbean and beyond, few functions are as misunderstood — or as underutilised — as internal audit. To some executives, it is a compliance checkbox. To others, it is a relic of bureaucratic governance. Yet to organisations that have suffered catastrophic failures of oversight, it...

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Winning the War for Talent: Retention Strategies for the Caribbean Enterprise

March 18, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Caribbean organisations are in a talent retention crisis — but most are responding to it with the wrong tools. Salary increases alone do not retain the employees most worth keeping. This article sets out the evidence base for what drives Caribbean talent attrition, maps the seven retention drivers that the region’s highest-performing organisations have mastered,...

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

An SRO at a Crossroads: The Jamaica Stock Exchange Under Twin Peaks.

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

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

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

The Practice Period: A Distinctive Caribbean Approach to Regulatory Transition

Independence: The Cornerstone of Internal Audit Credibility

The Strategic Imperative of Internal Audit: Why Every Organisation Needs a Robust IA Function

Winning the War for Talent: Retention Strategies for the Caribbean Enterprise

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