Emerald Zebra was founded in 2021 by Donna Stephenson and works from Limassol, Cyprus, as a three-person boutique. It recruits for fintech, technology, financial services and iGaming, including brokerage, crypto, payments and RegTech, and lists Cyprus, the UAE, Malaysia, the UK, EMEA, APAC and LATAM as active markets.

Besides permanent and executive hiring it offers interim and fractional leaders, embedded recruiters on retainer, HR and talent acquisition consulting, employer micro-sites, a Cyprus salary survey, relocation and visa support, and compliance training through its Academy.

The firm says its talent pool exceeds 65,000 professionals and that placements carry a three-month replacement or refund guarantee.