Zest Equity, a digital transactional infrastructure company, has received a Financial Services Permission (FSP) from the Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) of ADGM.
Headquartered in the UAE, the company enables regional and global clients to digitally transact in private market deals, hold funds through regulated escrow in relation to the deals, and facilitate private capital flows through regulated channels.
Zest Equity’s FSP Approval Marks a New Era for Digital Private Market Transactions
The FSP marks another step in Zest Equity’s roadmap and global strategy to build an infrastructure layer that connects capital across emerging and developed markets.
Built to digitize capital movement end-to-end, Zest Equity provides tools that streamline the execution of private-market transactions, from digital SPV setup to its newly regulated digital-first escrow services for safeguarding funds and the distribution rails that support private-market investment flows.
Zest Equity’s proprietary system replaces fragmented, manual workflows with a unified digital layer, allowing capital to move efficiently.
Zuhair Shamma Co-founder & CEO Zest Equity
“Private markets have long been held back by manual, fragmented processes that create unnecessary friction and fall short of what today’s transactions need. Our mission is to bring private markets into the future, making them standardized, automated, and accessible to anyone ready to transact. Through securing our FSP, we are enabling the shift toward a unified private market infrastructure, putting in place the digital rails that will support the next generation of transactions and move capital with the confidence and clarity that modern finance demands.”
Rawan Baddour, Co-founder of Zest Equity, said that, “The FSP marks an important step in how we deliver infrastructure for institutional capital flows. It enables us to integrate regulated escrow and distribution pathways with the existing digital execution tools.”
“This is the first of several regulatory milestones as we expand our capabilities to digitise private-market transactions end to end and solve the most pressing challenges that those leading private market investments face when executing their transactions,” Baddour added.
