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Internal Audit in Public Bodies: Accountability, Compliance, and the Public Purse

July 20, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

There is a paradox at the centre of Caribbean public-sector governance. No class of organization carries more explicit, legislated internal audit obligations than the region’s public bodies — the statutory agencies, government companies, and authorities through which a substantial share of national economic life flows. Accountability frameworks across the region presuppose audit committees, functioning internal...

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The Three Lines in Practice: Making Risk, Compliance, and Internal Audit Work Together

July 19, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Article 6 closed with a one-page exercise: the assurance map, showing which of an organization’s principal risks carry continuous assurance, periodic assurance, or none at all. Boards that complete it honestly usually discover the same two things. First, some risks are assured twice — tested by internal audit, reviewed by compliance, monitored by risk...

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How to Manage Risk and Insurance in a Volatile Region

July 11, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

The Caribbean concentrates more risk per square mile than almost anywhere on earth — and most businesses meet it with an unread policy and a hope. Risk is not weather. It is a portfolio, and portfolios can be engineered. The Problem, Lived “Desmond” owns a twenty-four-room boutique hotel and restaurant on the coast of...

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AI Vendor Risk Management: The Hidden Exposure in Third-Party Platforms

July 5, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

The practitioner’s toolkit — vendor questions, contract clauses, and the five-step program EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Many organizations believe they are not yet exposed to AI risk because they have not deployed an internal AI model. That assumption is becoming dangerous: AI is now embedded in cloud platforms, CRM systems, accounting software, HR applications, cybersecurity tools,...

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Making IFRS 17 Work in the Caribbean: Beyond Compliance to Insight

June 22, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

The most significant change to insurance accounting in a generation is also the region’s largest untapped source of management insight — if insurers stop treating it as a reporting chore. IFRS 17 is the most significant change to insurance accounting in a generation, and for most Caribbean insurers it arrived as the largest...

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From Compliance to Competitive Edge: The Five Stages of Actuarial Value

June 22, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Every organisation that carries financial risk sits somewhere on a five-stage continuum — usually without having chosen its position. Knowing where you are, and what it would take to climb, is the first strategic decision a board should make. There is a tendency, in boardrooms and management teams alike, to think of actuarial...

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Every Valuation Is an Argument: Pension Valuation Governance for Caribbean Trustees

May 30, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

When a Caribbean trustee approves a pension valuation, they are not approving a fact. They are endorsing a chain of assumptions reached by someone else — and the governance question that matters is whether the board has seen the argument, or only the conclusion. This is the second of four papers in The...

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Inside ISA 315 Revised: What Caribbean Audit Committees Must Expect on Risk Identification

May 23, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

In the first article of this series, we argued that the audit is no longer a compliance ritual — it is a board-level risk lens. If that is true, then the question every audit committee chair should now be asking is this: how does my auditor identify the risks of material misstatement in my...

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The New Audit Mandate: Why Caribbean Boards Must Rethink Audit as a Risk Lens

May 23, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

For most of the last fifty years, the external audit in the Caribbean was treated as an annual ritual. Companies prepared their books. Auditors arrived, asked questions, tested samples, and a few months later issued an opinion. Regulators received a copy. The audit committee acknowledged it. Shareholders, if they read it at all, read...

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The Caribbean Solvency Convergence: How Regional Capital Regimes Are Quietly Aligning

May 22, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

How regional capital regimes are quietly aligning, what cross-border insurers should be doing now to anticipate the convergence — and why the carriers that wait for the policy announcement will be the ones playing catch-up There is no Caribbean equivalent of Solvency II. There may never be one. But the regional capital regimes that...

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Risk Assurance & Advisory

Internal Audit in Public Bodies: Accountability, Compliance, and the Public Purse

The Three Lines in Practice: Making Risk, Compliance, and Internal Audit Work Together

How to Manage Risk and Insurance in a Volatile Region

AI Vendor Risk Management: The Hidden Exposure in Third-Party Platforms

Making IFRS 17 Work in the Caribbean: Beyond Compliance to Insight

From Compliance to Competitive Edge: The Five Stages of Actuarial Value

Inside ISA 315 Revised: What Caribbean Audit Committees Must Expect on Risk Identification

July 27, 2026The Report Is Not the Finish Line: Turning Cyber Findings into Verified Closure

July 27, 2026Beyond the Banks: Cyber Assurance for the Sectors That Keep the Caribbean Moving

July 27, 2026The Sector Where Trust Is the Product: Cyber Assurance for Caribbean Financial Institutions

July 23, 2026Could Your Organisation Survive a Ransomware Attack? The Caribbean Resilience Reality Check

July 23, 2026Why Scans Are Not Penetration Tests: Translating Cybersecurity Severity into Business Risk

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