Equiti Jordan Signs Three-Year Tennis Federation Deal as Local Broker Market Crowds

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EquitiGroup's Jordan unit has agreed a three-year sponsorship with the Jordan TennisFederation, becoming the federation's Official Partner from May 2026 throughApril 2029, the broker said today (Tuesday).The dealhands Equiti Jordan naming rights to the federation's Junior Tennis Initiative,the development pipeline for school-age players. It covers both tennis andpadel programs at the national and international level. Financial terms werenot disclosed.Localized Sports DealsStay Core to Equiti's Marketing MixThe tennistie-up follows a pattern Equiti has settled into over the past year. TheJordan Securities Commission-licensed broker is part of a group with entitiesin the UK, UAE, Cyprus, Kenya and elsewhere.In June2025, the firm took naming rights to Dubai's Youth Football League, rebranding the competition as theEquiti Youth Football League. The group also serves as sleeve sponsor of AbuDhabi football club Al Wahda.LutfiShahin, Managing Director of Equiti Group Limited (Jordan), said thepartnership would "invest in the next generation of Jordanian athletictalent," according to a statement.[#highlighted-links#] The brokerdid not detail the cash value of the agreement, the breakdown of program spendor the value attached to the naming rights.Equiti hasalso been busy on the product side, bringing in TraderEvolution as a platform provider in December2025 and entering an introducing arrangement with Bursa+ earlier this month.Khaled J.Naffa', President of the Jordan Tennis Federation, called the agreement"an investment in the future of Jordanian sport," according to thestatement. He said the support would help Jordanian players reach higher levelsof competition and access international tournaments.Tennis Sponsorships Remaina Familiar Pit Stop for CFD BrokersFederation-leveltennis deals sit on the smaller end of a sponsorship category brokers haveworked for more than a decade. Rival CFDprovider CFI Financial Group signed on as premium sponsorof the Mubadala World Tennis Championship in Abu Dhabi in 2022, placing itsbranding alongside players including Carlos Alcaraz and Casper Ruud.Otherbrokers have leaned on individual star endorsements rather than federations.TMGM signed German player Alexander Zverev ahead of the 2021 Australian Open,where it also held the title of official sponsor. Czech proptrading firm Fintokei brought on Japanese pro Yoshihito Nishioka as a global ambassador in 2024,while 24option contracted Boris Becker as early as 2015. XM has long usedRafael Nadal as a brand face.Rather thanbuying broadcast exposure through a tour event or a top-20 player, Equiti isbacking a national governing body and a youth pipeline in a market where italready holds a local license.Thatmirrors a path CFI took years ago in Jordan. The broker has sponsored the Jordanian basketballfederation since2021 and in 2023 lent its name to the country's premier knockout football tournament, which now runs as the CFI JordanCup.Jordan's CFD Market GrowsMore CrowdedThesponsorship lands in a Jordanian market that has become more competitive.Equiti was the first retail brokerage to secure a Jordan Securities Commissionlicense in roughly a decade when it received approval in 2018. CFI Jordan wasoperating around the same time through its own JSC license.Thelandscape shifted again in October 2025, when Exness opened its first MENA office inAmman afterobtaining a JSC permit. INGOT Brokers also lists Jordan among its regulatedjurisdictions. The marketremains small relative to the UAE, but the JSC license is one of the fewonshore retail trading permits available in the Levant.The Jordantennis deal joins the broker's founding partnership of DubaiBasketball, signedlast September ahead of the club's EuroLeague debut, in a sponsorship lineupthat now spans three sports across two countries.This article was written by Damian Chmiel at www.financemagnates.com.