- Chainlink is taking on a broader role in the financial world through projects with commercial lenders, central banks and cross-border settlement networks.
- Work with Swift, Deutsche Börse and FTSE Russell shows growing use of tokenized assets and onchain market data.
Chainlink has expanded its footprint across commercial banks, central banks, exchanges and market infrastructure providers. In a recent one message, the network outlined an extensive list of institutions using its network, including banks like BNP Paribas and Bancolombia, exchanges like Deutsche Börse, payment rails like Swift and regulators like Singapore’s MAS, Hong Kong’s HKMA and the Central Bank of Brazil.
These clients offer their services in public sector, banking, digital currency projects, market data, tokenized funds and cross-border settlement.
🇦🇺ANZ
🇨🇴 Bancolombia
🇧🇲 Monetary Authority of Bermuda
🇫🇷BNP Paribas
🇧🇷 Central Bank of Brazil
🇩🇪Deutsche Börse
🇦🇪 Emirates NBD
🇬🇧FTSE Russell
🇭🇰 Hong Kong Monetary Authority
🇸🇬 Monetary Authority of Singapore
🇯🇵 SBI
🇧🇪 Fast
🇨🇭UBS
🇺🇸 US Department of Commerce+ much more.… pic.twitter.com/zRw9unfJZ9
— Chainlink (@chainlink) March 15, 2026
In Brazil, Chainlink is working with the central bank in phase two of the Drex pilot, where it supported a cross-border trade deal between Brazil’s top bank and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority. The network handled data movement and coordinated contract execution across separate systems.
Hong Kong also featured in another institutional use case. Like us reported, The results of phase two of the e-HMO program included a cross-chain settlement model involving ANZ, China AMC and Fidelity International. That structure gave Australian-based investors access to tokenized money market fund units issued in Hong Kong using e-HKD and tokenized deposits. The model also combined cross-chain messaging with compliance features, giving Chainlink a hands-on role within the transaction flow.
Elsewhere, Singapore’s Project Guardian included work on tokenized funds and tokenized commercial paper. In these initiatives, market participants such as SBI Digital Markets, UBS Asset Management, ANZ and ADDX explored tokenized asset flows that required settlement coordination and interoperability between platforms.
Formerly CNF noted that Chainlink could overtake XRP in parts of the institutional blockchain market.
The role of Chainlink networks is growing in institutional markets
Chainlink’s The reach also extends to market infrastructure and data distribution. Deutsche Börse Market Data and Services formed a strategic partnership to publish multi-asset market data onchain via DataLink. That framework brought data from Xetra, Eurex, 360T and Tradegate to blockchain networks. FTSE Russell also joined that trail by publishing global indices on-chain.
Swift completed blockchain interoperability testing with more than ten financial institutions, including Citi, BNP Paribas and BNY Mellon. Chainlink was used in the tests to bridge the gap between conventional financial systems and blockchain networks and transfer tokenized assets via Ethereum, Avalanche, Optimism and Polygon.
In addition, Emirates NBD became a council member of the Digital Asset Lab, whose focus area is the development of digital assets and financial services in the UAE. Wenia, the digital asset firm of Bancolombia Group, has built in Proof of Reserve to verify reserves with its COPW stablecoin in Latin America.
Meanwhile, in Bermuda, Chainlink and Apex Group piloted an onchain stablecoin compliance system with the Bermuda Monetary Authority.
This month we outlined that Chainlink expanded its presence in MENA through a partnership with the Abu Dhabi-based company $ADI Foundation, which has acquired CCIP and oracle services $ADI Chain’s tokenization strategy.