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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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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...

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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,...

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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...

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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...

Audit & Assurance Board & Governance Financial Services Regulatory & Standards Risk & Compliance

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...

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From Sectoral Silos to Twin Peaks: Reading Jamaica’s 2026 Reform Correctly

May 2, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

When the Twin Peaks legislation is enacted in 2026, Jamaica will not be relabeling its regulators. It will be re-architecting how the entire financial system is supervised. Boards, securities dealers, insurers, pension trustees and listed issuers that read this reform as a name change will arrive at the cutover unprepared. Those that read it correctly...

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AI in Audit: Opportunity, Oversight, and Executive Accountability

May 1, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

How leaders should think about AI in assurance without confusing technical capability with evidential reliability. AI is changing how audit and assurance work is performed, but it also raises questions about evidence quality, model governance, documentation, and accountability. Executives need a governance lens, not just a productivity lens. The promise and the temptation AI...

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Audit and Assurance in 2026: The Leadership Agenda

April 30, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Why boards, CEOs, CFOs, and audit committees are treating assurance as a strategic trust issue rather than a technical back-office function. 2026 is emerging as a hinge year for audit and assurance. Sustainability assurance is moving into operational reality, regulators remain dissatisfied with core audit quality, and firms are being pushed to prove that technology...

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

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

From Sectoral Silos to Twin Peaks: Reading Jamaica’s 2026 Reform Correctly

AI in Audit: Opportunity, Oversight, and Executive Accountability

Audit and Assurance in 2026: The Leadership Agenda

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

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