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The Gulf moves a great deal of value peer-to-peer, and most of it moves on trust that has nothing to hold it up.
Someone sends first. Sometimes the other side performs, and sometimes they do not. The losses are quiet, rarely reported, and almost never recovered, and the people most exposed are the ones least able to absorb it.
Escrow is an old, unglamorous answer to that problem. It works. What it has lacked in this region is anyone willing to run it transparently: published fees, published timelines, a named company, and a mechanism you can verify rather than a promise you have to accept.
You are trusting a company with a signature on your funds. You should be able to see the faces attached to it.
Two separations are deliberate. The Dispute Lead is not the Operations Lead, so nobody decides a dispute on a deal they ran. The CISO is not the Compliance Officer, so the person securing the keys is not the person auditing whether they were secured. Both are requirements, not preferences.
Asset, amount, both parties, delivery terms. We will confirm whether we can act and exactly what it costs before you commit to anything.