Bottomline moves $16+ trillion in payments annually for more than 600 banks. At @Sibos 2026, Natasha Lapierre, Global Head of Product Strategy and Innovation at @bottomlinepay, explains the firm’s strategic partnership with Chainlink ↓

Introducing Chainlink Fulcrum: the gateway connecting the world’s largest financial institutions to onchain financing. As tokenized assets and financing venues expand across public and private blockchains, institutions need to mobilize collateral and access liquidity without building bespoke infrastructure for every market. Chainlink Fulcrum solves this with an end-to-end solution that separates where financing agreements are managed from where cash & collateral settle. Counterparties define the eligible assets, financing terms, and the settlement networks through which the assets move. For institutions, this unlocks: • Faster collateral mobilization that enables intraday financing, including on holidays and weekends. • 24/7 risk management through automated collateral coverage checks throughout the day, extending beyond end-of-day processes. • Greater capital efficiency by making assets across networks available for financing, helping institutions free up balance sheet capacity. • Lower operational complexity through reusable workflows that connect existing systems across public and private blockchains. The solution combines multiple aspects of the Chainlink platform, including the Chainlink Runtime Environment (orchestrates transaction lifecycle), CCIP (cross-chain data and asset transfers), and Data Streams (collateral valuation data). Chainlink Fulcrum is designed to serve all market participants, including banks, dealers, prime brokers, agent lenders, custodians, hedge funds, pension funds, insurers, sovereign wealth funds, money market funds, asset managers, tokenized fund and stablecoin issuers, and corporate treasuries. Each can lend, borrow, or mobilize collateral on terms that fit its mandate and risk parameters. Fulcrum is in the process of being integrated with leading TradFi environments, providing a single platform where participants can compare financing terms and route transactions to the venue of their choice, where the agreement is executed and governed. This is a foundational step toward global financing markets, where an asset’s utility extends beyond the network on which it was issued. 🧵↓

NEW: Top-three Swift service provider, Bottomline, has entered a strategic partnership with Chainlink to unlock cross-chain, cross-border payments for its 600+ bank customers. Bottomline moves more than $16 trillion in payments annually across its platforms. Through the partnership, Chainlink is providing the secure interop and orchestration layer connecting Bottomline’s existing payment infrastructure to public and private blockchains. TradFi is moving onchain at a rapidly accelerating pace, and CCIP is enabling tokenized value to move securely across chains, with the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE) coordinating payment workflows end-to-end. The result is that Bottomline’s banks can continue using familiar ISO 20022 messaging to access onchain payment rails through a single, network-agnostic connection.

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Introducing Link:NYC ⬡ A new flagship Chainlink event bringing together senior banking and capital markets leaders to accelerate onchain finance adoption. October 29, 2026, in the financial capital of the world.

UPDATE: Chainlink’s innovations in the Bank of England’s Synchronisation Lab continue to accelerate. We've now shown how the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE) unlocks synchronized settlement between central bank money and tokenized assets on public ledgers. Three key custom components were built on top of CRE: 1. A Chainlink Labs Synchronisation Operator UI to initiate transactions, build onchain instructions, and track status. 2. A CRE UI showing the activity across deployed CRE workflows. 3. A central bank UI to confirm transactions. Together, these enable an operator to seamlessly and securely coordinate settlement across traditional payment systems and onchain environments leveraging Chainlink infrastructure.