Our Story
Operator First.
Structure Second.
RJ & Co. Holdings did not begin as a holding company. It began as one production business in Sulaymaniyah, and the structure was built afterwards to hold what that business became.
The Record
How It was Built
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2014
UE Group, trading as Unique Engine, is established in Sulaymaniyah.
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2015
UE Productions is co-founded and becomes the group's first operating business.
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2016
UE Group launches operations, with a corporate office in Erbil alongside the Sulaymaniyah headquarters.
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2017
UED Creative is co-founded, extending the group from production into digital creative, social and paid media across Erbil and Sulaymaniyah.
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2023
UE Capital Ltd is incorporated in Saint Lucia. It is the group's first move into regulated financial markets, running its own MetaTrader 5 main label rather than a white label.
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2024
Atlas Prime Ltd is incorporated, adding a multi-asset brokerage regulated by the FSCA in South Africa, a Dubai technology entity, and the Atlas Prime Liquidity institutional desk.
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2025
EcoTrade Ltd is incorporated in Saint Lucia. The group's property and technology arms take shape around Nexora Residency, Vertex Intel and Korex.
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Today
Seventeen companies and two projects across six sectors, held under one structure, with offices and operations reaching four continents.
Vision
Where Vision Becomes Empire
To build a group of companies durable enough to outlast the people who founded them.
An empire is not a collection of assets. It is a structure. A good one survives a bad year in any single market, moves capital and people to where they actually compound, and holds every business inside it to a standard the market can rely on.
That is the work: not accumulating companies, but building the structure that makes owning them worth doing.
Mission
Build Well, Hold Long, Answer for It
To found and operate businesses in markets we understand, capitalise them from our own balance sheet, and stay accountable for how they behave, to clients, to regulators and to the people who work in them. Where the group operates in regulated markets, it does so through licensed entities and takes that obligation seriously.
What We Hold to
Three Commitments
Build It before You Hold It
The group's companies were founded and grown from the inside. That is what earns the right to set their strategy, and what makes the advice we give each other worth anything.
Licences are not Decoration
Where a business touches client money it operates through a licensed entity and is run to that standard, not to the minimum the jurisdiction will tolerate.
Own on a Thirty-Year Clock
We invest our own money, so nothing forces a sale on someone else's timetable. If a business is working we keep it. If it is not, we fix it.
Leadership
Rezhwan Jaff
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of RJ & Co. Holdings.
He holds executive positions across the group's operating companies, in most cases as the person who founded them.
- UE Group Chief Executive Officer and ChairmanUnique Engine
- UE Productions Chief Executive Officer and Co-FounderSince 2015
- UED Creative Co-Founder2017
- Nexora Residency Founder and Managing Director
“A holding for growth. A structure for an empire.”RJ & Co. Holdings, founding principle
