Leah and Mashreq Partner to Modernize Credit Documentation and Enterprise Contracting Using GenAI
The partnership further expands Leah’s presence in the UAE and the broader MENA region, where financial institutions are increasingly adopting secure, enterprise-grade AI to modernize regulated operations.
London – [DATE], 2026 – Leah, The global leader in AI and contract lifecycle management (CLM), today announced that Mashreq, a leading financial institutions in the MENA region, has selected the company to drive a major GenAI transformation initiative across Legal, Credit, Procurement and Risk, with a core need to modernize credit documentation and enterprise-wide contracting. The initiative supports Mashreq’s broader efforts to streamline documentation while maintaining rigorous governance, security, and regulatory controls across jurisdictions.
Mashreq will deploy Leah Contract Lifestyle Management as a unified contract lifecycle platform spanning centralized repositories, workflows, analytics, and obligation management. The platform supports AI-driven generation and review of facility and security documents, along with extraction, discovery, redlining, and legal helpdesk capabilities that streamline collaboration across the relevant bank departments.
“With Mashreq operating across multiple business lines and markets, we are advancing an enterprise-wide initiative focused on contracting and regulated documentation, with an emphasis on operating consistently across jurisdictions while meeting strict governance, data residency, and multilingual requirements,” said [insert name, insert title] at Mashreq. “Working with a provider that is able to handle complex financial documentation and deliver strong generative AI performance across review and policy support will enable us to streamline relevant operations and enhance inter-departmental collaboration, in turn increasing efficiency and improving performance.”
“Financial institutions are under immense pressure to move faster without compromising governance or compliance,” said Sarvarth Misra, CEO & Co-Founder of Leah. “Mashreq’s selection reflects a broader shift we’re seeing across regulated industries toward AI that is practical, explainable, and designed for real-world complexity. Leah was chosen for its ability to support sophisticated documentation workflows, provide enterprise-wide visibility, and operate securely within environments with strict governance requirements, while offering a clear path toward agentic AI adoption over time.”
Leah’s open, cloud-agnostic architecture integrates with existing banking systems while maintaining strict data residency, security, and governance requirements, including a 100% UAE-hosted deployment. By combining agentic AI with deep domain expertise, Leah enables financial institutions to move from fragmented, manual processes to more proactive, insight-driven operations.
About Leah
Leah is a global leader in Agentic AI and the pioneer behind the Leah Agentic OS that enables enterprises to build, orchestrate, and govern intelligent agents across legal, procurement, finance, and beyond. Evolving from its award-winning Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) and Leah Legal solutions, the company has reimagined how enterprises manage contracts, data, and decisions, transforming automation into true enterprise-wide agentic orchestration.
By combining secure, enterprise-grade AI with a flexible, cloud-agnostic architecture, Leah empowers customers to own their agentic ecosystems, connect workflows across functions, and drive measurable ROI and resilience at scale. The company has been recognized as a CLM Visionary by Gartner for five consecutive years and named a Leader in the 2025 IDC MarketScape for AI-Enabled Buy-Side CLM Applications. Headquartered in London, Leah operates globally with offices across New York, Dubai, Sydney, Glasgow, Mumbai, and Singapore.
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About Mashreq
Mashreq is more than half a century old, yet proudly thinks like a challenger, startup, and innovator. Mashreq has pioneered key innovations and developments in banking, starting with entry-level digital-first customers all the way to powering some of the region’s most prominent corporations and wealth accounts.
The bank’s mandate is to help customers find their way to Rise Every Day, partnering through the highs and lows to help them achieve their goals and unlock their vision of success.
Reassuringly present in major financial centers of the world, Mashreq’s home and global HQ remains in the Middle East, offering services whenever and wherever opportunity takes its customers.
Mashreq has been recognized as the fastest-growing Middle East brand by Banking 500 rankings for 2024 by Brand Finance.
Find your way to Rise Every Day at: www.Mashreq.com/RiseEveryDay
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