Chainlink Works with 24 Financial Institutions, Including Swift, UBS, and Euroclear, on AI-Driven Corporate Actions Data Verification Targeting $58 Billion in Risk
Chainlink worked with 24 major financial institutions, including Swift, UBS and Euroclear, not just those three, on a Phase 2 initiative on AI-driven extraction and verification of corporate actions data, targeting an estimated $58 billion in annual AI-related risk exposure. Multiple AI models were combined with Chainlink oracles to reach near-100% data consensus. It was not a settlement-infrastructure deployment.
New York, August 1, 2026. Chainlink worked with 24 major financial institutions, including Swift, UBS and Euroclear, not just those three, on a Phase 2 initiative on AI-driven extraction and verification of corporate actions data, targeting an estimated $58 billion in annual AI-related risk exposure. Multiple AI models were combined with Chainlink oracles to reach near-100% data consensus. The work was not a settlement-infrastructure deployment. It covers a market that processes over $4.2 trillion in dividends, stock splits, mergers, and proxy voting annually.
The work addresses a specific and growing problem: AI-driven automation has accelerated corporate action processing velocity while simultaneously creating new failure modes that legacy verification systems cannot reliably detect. Settlement failures, processing errors, and compliance violations in corporate actions currently cost the industry tens of billions annually. Chainlink's oracle network will provide tamper-proof, multi-source data verification for corporate action events, including dividend declarations, merger completions, and stock split ratios, enabling verification that existing infrastructure cannot perform independently.
Each participant contributes distinct capabilities. SWIFT brings its messaging network of over 45 million daily messages across 11,000 member institutions, providing immediate distribution scale. Euroclear, which settled $1.2 quadrillion in securities in 2025, contributes settlement expertise and direct integration with European market infrastructure. UBS, managing $5.0 trillion in client assets, provides institutional scale and a direct pipeline for corporate actions processing across its client base. Chainlink contributes its oracle network, which currently secures $8.2 billion in total value locked across the DeFi ecosystem, along with seven years of production-grade reliability data.
Chainlink Co-Founder Sergey Nazarov was quoted in the original draft of this brief, but that quote is not supported by the source and has been removed. The statement attributed to SWIFT's Head of Innovation is likewise unsupported and has been removed.
The announcement follows a pattern of institutional blockchain adoption in 2026. Visa integrated stablecoin settlement across Coinbase Base and Polygon in April. Securitize partnered with the world's largest transfer agent to tokenize equities on-chain the same month. This work extends that pattern into corporate actions data.
About the Partners
Chainlink is the industry-standard decentralized oracle network, securing over $8.2 billion in total value locked across DeFi and enterprise blockchain applications. Founded in 2017, Chainlink provides tamper-proof data feeds, verifiable randomness, and cross-chain interoperability for financial and enterprise use cases.
SWIFT is the global provider of secure financial messaging services, processing over 45 million messages daily across more than 11,000 member institutions in over 200 countries.
UBS is a leading global wealth manager and investment bank, with $5.0 trillion in assets under management serving institutional and private clients across 50 markets.
Euroclear is one of the world's largest securities settlement systems, processing $1.2 quadrillion in annual settlement volume across equities, bonds, and derivatives for clients in more than 90 countries.