Jamaica

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...

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The Diagnosis Behind the Reform: Why Jamaica Chose Twin Peaks, and What It Must Now Deliver

May 2, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

What actually happened at SSL On 17 January 2023, a Jamaican investor went public with allegations that her investment account at Stocks and Securities Limited — a securities dealer regulated by the Financial Services Commission for over four decades — had been systematically drained over a period of years. Within days, what began as one...

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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...

AI & Emerging Technology Board & Governance Regulatory & Standards

Data Sovereignty: Where does our data go, and how do we answer that question defensibly?

April 24, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

IN THIS ARTICLE The fourth article of twelve. It opens Act II of the series — The Guardrails — by addressing the single most common objection every Caribbean board raises when AI is proposed: where does our data go? Articles 1, 2 and 3 established why Caribbean executives must engage with AI, what the...

AI & Emerging Technology Board & Governance Regulatory & Standards

The Productivity Economics of AI: What the Return Actually Looks Like for a Caribbean SME

April 24, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

IN THIS ARTICLE The third article of twelve. It answers the question every Caribbean SME owner is quietly asking: what does AI actually cost at my scale, what does it actually return, and in what order should I spend? Articles 1 and 2 established why the current technology cycle matters and what AI agents...

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Designing a Pan-Caribbean Tax Operating Model for a Multi-Jurisdictional Group

April 19, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

C | Context A diversified Caribbean group, built over three decades through a combination of organic expansion and strategic acquisition, had accumulated a multi-jurisdictional footprint whose tax management had not kept pace with its commercial development. The group’s fourteen legal entities, spread across six Caribbean jurisdictions, were each managed by local finance teams operating under...

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

Modernising Internal Audit Across an Eight-Entity Caribbean Conglomerate

April 19, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

C | Context A long-established Caribbean conglomerate, structured as a holding company over eight operating entities across four industry verticals and four jurisdictions, carried an internal audit function that was technically present but materially under-scaled. The function consisted of a small centrally-located team with a traditional compliance-focused mandate, an audit plan that reflected historical...

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ERP Rescue Case Study: How a Caribbean Statutory Body Recovered a Delayed ERP Programme and Achieved Go-Live with ERPSURE™

April 18, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

C | Context A Caribbean statutory body — a parastatal entity with a national service-delivery mandate, reporting to a line ministry and accountable to both Cabinet and Parliament for its financial stewardship — was two years into an ERP implementation programme that had materially overshot both its original timeline and its original budget. Four successive...

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M&A Case Study: How a Caribbean Hotel Group Executed a Confidential Strategic Exit to an International Buyer

April 18, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Anchored by MERIDIAN™ — Dawgen Global’s M&A Value Architecture Model C | Context A founding-family-controlled Caribbean hotel group had reached an inflection point. The founding generation, which had assembled the portfolio property-by-property over three decades, was planning retirement. The second generation had demonstrated operational capability across two of the group’s properties but had made clear...

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