Built by people who felt the problem first
Jigzo exists because its founders experienced what happens when the traditional financial system meets an innovative business: arbitrary account freezes, punitive fees and closed doors. The answer was not another workaround — it was for the founding team to spend years building the regulatory framework, the banking relationships and the platform that partners can now deploy in weeks.
- Founded
- 2019 — development, regulatory approval and partnership building begin.
- Ownership
- Built on deep regulatory foundations — governed for stability and long-term growth.
Deliberately engineered for scale.
The groundwork came first, and it was substantial: a compliance framework, banking relationships, safeguarding arrangements and a regulatory footprint across the UK, EU and Canada — all in place before the platform carried a single live deployment.
That depth is what lets the platform scale. Every partner who joins inherits foundations that were years in the building — the governance, the controls and the regulatory standing already operating in production. It is a platform built to grow: deliberately, and on ground that holds.
One managed layer between your brand and the rails.
Principles, not posture.
Four principles govern every decision at Jigzo — from which partners we accept to how the platform is run.
Regulatory governance is the foundation
Compliance is not a department that says no; it is the reason partners and their networks can rely on the platform at all.
The managed model is a strength
One delivery model — turnkey and managed — protects quality, compliance integrity and operational control for every partner equally.
Partners own their relationships
Your brand, your network, your commercial momentum. Jigzo executes behind the scenes and never competes for your audience.
Judge businesses on their merits
Sectors that banks dismiss by category deserve assessment by evidence. Our framework exists to say yes responsibly.
Built by the people who run it.
El Asmar
Managing Director
Partnerships, platform direction and the managed model.
Adam Neal
Head of Compliance & MLRO
The AML/CTF framework, regulatory governance and compliance operations.
Fahad Shiltagh
Technology Director
Architecture and delivery of the platform behind every partner deployment.
Regulated where it operates.
The platform is operated by Jigzo under regulatory frameworks spanning the UK, EU and Canada. Jigzo is registered as a Money Services Business with FINTRAC, and its Czech entity is authorised by the Czech National Bank for asset management. Every end-user is onboarded under the Jigzo regulatory framework — full documentation is available to prospective partners during due diligence, and Compliance explains how the framework operates day to day.