Infosys partners with Chainlink to bring onchain finance to 1.7 billion bank accounts

Chainlink just landed one of its biggest institutional partnerships yet. Infosys, the Indian IT services behemoth listed on the NYSE under INFY, is integrating Chainlink’s suite of blockchain tools into its banking and payments infrastructure, which currently services more than 1.7 billion customer accounts worldwide.

What the partnership actually involves

The deal goes well beyond a vague handshake about “exploring blockchain.” Infosys plans to standardize a broad set of Chainlink technologies within its existing financial infrastructure. The toolkit includes Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP), which allows data and tokens to move between different blockchains. It also covers the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE), the Automated Compliance Engine (ACE), Proof of Reserve, Data Streams, and Data Feeds.

By embedding Chainlink’s tools directly into Infosys’s existing stack, the partnership lowers the barrier for institutions that want blockchain exposure without an IT overhaul.

Chainlink’s institutional playbook is accelerating

Earlier in September 2026, Chainlink announced a collaboration with Bottomline, a payments technology company, that targeted over 600 banks and roughly $16 trillion in annual transaction volume. That deal focused on enabling blockchain access through established SWIFT and ISO 20022 workflows, the messaging standards that already underpin most international bank transfers.

The Infosys partnership follows the same strategic logic but operates at a different scale. Infosys, valued at more than $40 billion, brings decades of embedded relationships with tier-one banks, central banks, and payment networks across Asia, Europe, and the Americas.

Infosys, for its part, isn’t a blockchain newcomer either. The company launched India Trade Connect back in 2018, a blockchain-based trade finance network.

Why this matters for onchain markets

Chainlink’s Proof of Reserve allows institutions to verify that assets backing tokenized products actually exist. Data Streams and Data Feeds provide the real-time pricing data that onchain financial products need to function reliably. CCIP handles the cross-chain movement that prevents liquidity from getting trapped on a single network. ACE addresses the compliance requirements that regulators demand before approving institutional participation.

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