At Sibos 2026, Tempo's Simon Taylor and Chainlink Labs' Andrew McCormick discussed how traditional finance and DeFi are converging. They covered always-on markets and 24/7 collateral management.
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Moody's Ratings completed a pilot using Chainlink's CCIP to send credit ratings to several blockchains at once, connecting its Token Integration Engine to permissioned and public networks. The test used representative data with no real rating actions published, and no production launch date was given.
At Link:NYC, Robinhood's Johann Kerbrat and Chainlink Labs' Johann Eid discussed how tokenization is opening financial markets, enabling 24/7 global trading and letting tokenized assets be used as collateral. They also talked about the trusted market data needed for perpetuals, margin calls and collateral rules.
In a Chainlink video from Sibos 2026, Wayne Hughes of BNP Paribas explains how the bank is integrating blockchain technology into its operating model by connecting existing platforms with multiple blockchains. He argues abstraction is key to making that infrastructure simpler.
Charles Schwab, which manages over $13 trillion in client assets, added Solana, Avalanche and Chainlink's LINK to Schwab Crypto on Nov. 9, bringing its supported spot cryptocurrencies to five alongside Bitcoin and Ethereum. The service charges a 0.75% trading fee and is open to eligible retail clients in select U.S. states.
