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Proof of Reserves Explained: The New Quarterly Audit for Jamaican Exchanges and Custodians

Jamaica’s VASP regime introduces a recurring, independently audited proof of reserves for trading platforms and custodians. Here is what it is, why it matters, what makes it credible, and how to be ready. In short: under Jamaica’s proposed VASP regime, Class A (trading platforms) and Class C (custodians) must demonstrate — at least...

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VASP Licensing Requirements in Jamaica: The Complete Checklist

June 28, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

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...

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The Six VASP Licence Classes in Jamaica: Which One Does Your Business Need?

June 28, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

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),...

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Jamaica’s Proposed VASP Licensing Regime: The Complete Guide

June 27, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

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...

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Five Caribbean AI Use Cases Worth Funding First: Where Boards Should Begin

May 27, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Edition 01 ended with a question. This one answers it. In Edition 01 of this series, I argued that the single most common reason Caribbean enterprise AI pilots stall is not the technology. It is the failure to choose the right use case in the first place. The discipline of starting where data exists, where...

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From AI Ambition to Measurable Outcomes: A 90-Day Path for Caribbean Boards

May 27, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Why most enterprise AI pilots stall — and how Caribbean boards can build a 90‑day path from idea to validated business value, with global partner discipline and local execution. Where boardroom AI conversations are stuck — and how to move them forward Across the Caribbean, every executive committee I sit in front of is...

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The Three-Bucket Doctrine: How Washington Just Re-Drew the Map of Digital Assets, and What It Means for the Caribbean Regulator’s Desk

May 12, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

If Article 1 of this series was the news, this article is the map. The CLARITY Act’s most consequential design choice is the explicit division of all digital assets into three regulatory buckets, each with a defined supervisor. The bucket a token falls into determines who regulates it, what disclosures attach to it, who can...

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The Bill That Changes Everything: Inside the U.S. CLARITY Act and the Triad That Will Reshape Caribbean Capital Markets

May 12, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

On Thursday morning, in a hearing room in Washington, the United States Senate Banking Committee will mark up a 309-page Bill that almost no one in the Caribbean is talking about. By Friday morning, the financial architecture that will govern the next decade of global capital formation will look meaningfully different. This article explains what...

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Credit Union Member Share Digitisation: Tokenization Inside the Cooperative Movement

May 6, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

In the previous article of this series, we applied DAGAF™ — the Digital Asset Governance and Assurance Framework — to tokenized resort real estate, the most unmistakably Caribbean of the use case applications we set out to test the framework against. We chose that asset class first because it does not let any pillar of...

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Tokenized Resort Real Estate: The Caribbean Use Case That Tests the Framework

May 5, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

In the seven previous articles of this series, we have constructed the Digital Asset Governance and Assurance Framework — DAGAF™ — pillar by pillar. We have established the case for a Caribbean-anchored framework, mapped the foreign and regional regulatory regimes Caribbean enterprises must operate within, set out the architecture of the framework as a whole,...

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Proof of Reserves Explained: The New Quarterly Audit for Jamaican Exchanges and Custodians