Chainlink Expands Its Reach Across Banks, Central Banks, and Financial Markets

• Chainlink is gaining a broader role in finance through projects with commercial lenders, central banks, and cross-border settlement networks.
• Its work with Swift, Deutsche Börse, and FTSE Russell shows growing use in tokenized assets and onchain market data.

Chainlink has widened its footprint across commercial banks, central banks, exchanges, and market infrastructure providers. In a recent post, 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 across the public sector, banking, digital currency projects, market data, tokenized funds and cross-border settlement.

🇦🇺 ANZ
🇨🇴 Bancolombia
🇧🇲 Bermuda Monetary Authority
🇫🇷 BNP Paribas
🇧🇷 Central Bank of Brazil
🇩🇪 Deutsche Börse
🇦🇪 Emirates NBD
🇬🇧 FTSE Russell
🇭🇰 Hong Kong Monetary Authority
🇸🇬 Monetary Authority of Singapore
🇯🇵 SBI
🇧🇪 Swift
🇨🇭 UBS
🇺🇸 U.S. Department of Commerce

+ many 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 settlement test 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. As we reported, phase two results from the e-HKD program included a cross-chain settlement model involving ANZ, China AMC, and Fidelity International. That structure allowed Australia-based investors to access tokenized money market fund units issued in Hong Kong by using e-HKD and tokenized deposits. The model also combined cross-chain messaging with compliance functions, which placed Chainlink in a practical role within the transaction flow.

Elsewhere, Singapore’s Project Guardian included work around tokenized funds and tokenized commercial paper. In those initiatives, market participants such as SBI Digital Markets, UBS Asset Management, ANZ, and ADDX explored tokenized asset flows that required settlement coordination and interoperability across platforms.

Previously, CNF noted that Chainlink might be overtaking XRP in parts of the institutional blockchain market.

Chainlink Network Role Grows in Institutional Markets

Chainlink’s reach also extends into market infrastructure and data distribution. Deutsche Börse Market Data and Services formed a strategic partnership to publish multi-asset market data onchain through DataLink. That framework brought data from Xetra, Eurex, 360T, and Tradegate onto blockchain networks. FTSE Russell also joined that track by publishing global indices on-chain.

Swift completed blockchain interoperability tests with more than 10 financial institutions, including Citi, BNP Paribas, and BNY Mellon. Chainlink was employed in the tests to bridge the gap between conventional financial systems and blockchain networks and transfer tokenized assets across Ethereum, Avalanche, Optimism, and Polygon.

Moreover, Emirates NBD became a council member of its Digital Asset Lab, whose focus area is the development of digital assets and financial services in the UAE. Wenia, the digital assets firm of Bancolombia Group, embedded Proof of Reserve to verify the reserves with its COPW stablecoin in Latin America.

Meanwhile, in Bermuda, Chainlink and Apex Group conducted a trial on 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 $ADI Foundation, which adopted CCIP and oracle services for $ADI Chain’s tokenization strategy.