Equiti Group has opened a walk-in branch in Al Ain, its second physical storefront in the United Arab Emirates, the broker said today (Wednesday). The branch is on Hamdan Bin Mohammad Street in the city, which lies in the emirate of Abu Dhabi.
Equiti opened its first UAE storefront earlier this month on King Faisal Road in Sharjah, as FinanceMagnates.com reported on September 14.
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The region carries weight for online brokers. Capital.com has said the Middle East accounts for about 60% of its platform volume, with the UAE its biggest market in the region.
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Among online brokers, moomoo and its parent Futu operate physical stores in Singapore, Hong Kong and Malaysia. IG keeps an office in the UAE where traders can meet its staff.
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Equiti itself has had an office in Abu Dhabi since 2023, which it described at the time as its tenth location worldwide. That office opened about a year after the broker received its onshore UAE license.
Visitors to the storefronts can walk in and meet staff, Equiti said when it opened the Sharjah branch, which is headed by general director Mohamed Hachichou.
Licensed Onshore, With Staff on the Street
Both branches operate under Equiti Securities Currencies Brokers, which holds a trading broker license and an arrangement and advice license from the UAE's Capital Market Authority (CMA). The CMA replaced the Securities and Commodities Authority on January 1.
Clients can meet a local team at the branch for face-to-face support alongside the broker's online platforms, according to Equiti.
Kinan Hassino, general director of the Al Ain branch, said Equiti was "proud to establish a permanent presence here."
Equiti also sponsors an Abu Dhabi football club. In August it moved its logo to the front of Al Wahda FC's shirts for the 2026/27 season, having started as the club's sleeve sponsor in 2024.
Outside the Gulf, Equiti Capital UK paused onboarding of new medium- and high-risk clients in August and reduced its role as a liquidity provider to other Equiti entities.
The UK unit's net trading revenue fell 24% to $24.4 million in 2025.
