Sibos 2026 – Traydstream and Mashreq have announced an expansion of their strategic partnership, bringing together two major initiatives designed to accelerate the digital transformation of trade finance. The collaboration builds on an existing relationship between Traydstream and NeoVentures, Mashreq's corporate venture capital arm, which co-created TraydFund in 2025 and deepened its commitment through a strategic investment in Traydstream's bridge round in August 2026.
Traydstream is collaborating with Mashreq's Trade Operations team to automate trade finance processing across the bank's multi-country operations. Traydstream's OCR- and AI-enabled technology will support comprehensive automation across document scrutiny, compliance checks and wider trade processing activities.
The initiative is expected to improve operational efficiency and consistency, reduce manual intervention and deliver faster turnaround times for Mashreq and its clients.
Sameer Sehgal, CEO of Traydstream, said: "Together with Mashreq, we are addressing two important opportunities within global trade finance: the need for greater operational automation and the ability to distribute trade risk more efficiently. TraydFund demonstrates what can be achieved through genuine co-creation, while our work with Mashreq's Trade Operations team will help deliver faster, more consistent and increasingly intelligent trade processing at scale."
Amith Rajan, Head of Wholesale Digital Banking, Mashreq & CEO, NeoVentures, said: "Our relationship with Traydstream has evolved from co-creating TraydFund, to investing in their growth, to now embedding their technology into our own operations. Every stage has strengthened our conviction in this partnership."
Vivek Batra, Executive Vice President, Global Head - Global Transaction Banking, said: "Trade finance at this scale demands infrastructure that keeps pace with our clients' ambitions across markets. This partnership strengthens that foundation, and reinforces Mashreq's position at the forefront of digital trade transformation."
The partnership reflects Mashreq and Traydstream's shared ambition to modernise trade finance through practical innovation, intelligent automation and closer collaboration across the financial ecosystem.
