Everything you must assemble to apply for a virtual asset service provider licence — eligibility, capital, fit and proper, cybersecurity, AML/CFT, substance and class-specific conditions — in one practical, printable checklist. In short: to be licensed as a VASP in Jamaica, an applicant must be a Jamaican-incorporated company that can demonstrate a credible...
A practical decision guide to Classes A through F — what each one covers, the activity that triggers it, the obligations that come with it, the annual fee, and how to scope the right licence (or licences) before you spend. In short: Jamaica’s proposed VASP regime creates six licence classes — A (trading platforms),...
Everything businesses, boards and investors need to understand about how Jamaica will license and supervise virtual asset service providers — the six license classes, capital and substance, AML/CFT, proof of reserves, fees, and the road to enactment. In short: the Financial Services Commission (FSC) has proposed a full licensing regime for virtual asset service...
Most Caribbean businesses don’t decide to upgrade their finance function — they wait until something breaks. Here are the seven signals that tell you the setup that got you here won’t get you where you’re going. Every growing company outgrows its finance setup eventually. The bookkeeper-and-spreadsheet model that served you at JMD 20 million...
For too long, boards have treated cybersecurity as something to delegate to technical experts and review once a year. But cyber risk is now enterprise risk — and a board that watches from the sidelines is not governing it at all. This series has built, article by article, toward a single idea: that the...
You vetted your critical suppliers carefully — once. Since then they have changed their subprocessors, their data locations, their security and sometimes their owners, and you have not looked again. In a cloud-first Caribbean, that gap is where operational risk now lives. This series has worked through annual governance as a liability, the continuous operating...
Boards rarely fail through negligence. They fail through cadence — because certain risks simply are not visible between one audit and the next. Here are the six places that vision goes dark, and what it takes to keep the lights on. Across the first two articles in this series I made two arguments. First,...
The series finale — a structured way to measure whether your enterprise is ready to bring an asset-anchored bond Eleven articles ago, this series began with a frustration familiar to every Caribbean enterprise of substance: the gap between the capital such a business deserves and the capital the market actually offers it. We named the...
The appreciating assets that can anchor a Caribbean bond — across tourism, energy, logistics, agriculture, and beyond This series has built an instrument, mapped its demand, and addressed the market that must carry it. One question remains on the supply side, and it is the most concrete of all: where, across the Caribbean economy,...
The market infrastructure that turns individual issues into an asset class — standardisation, ratings, benchmarks, and the regulatory architecture of a deeper market The previous article established that the demand exists: substantial pools of long-dated Caribbean capital, in pension funds and insurers, structurally suited to the asset-anchored bond and largely unable to find it. The...
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