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 ba...