Chainlink Partners With Major Financial Players to Improve Corporate Actions Data Reporting Using AI and Blockchain

Automating and standardizing corporate actions data could help significantly reduce operational inefficiencies that currently cost businesses millions of dollars every year due to errors and manual data processing, the report said.

Data provider Chainlink (LINK), together with major financial market participants, announced Monday an initiative to enhance the accessibility and standardization of corporate actions data using AI and blockchain technology.

Chainlink, Euroclear, Swift and Franklin Templeton, among other participants, started an integration to make corporate actions data more widely available and standardized using artificial intelligence and blockchain tech.

The project aims to address a long-standing challenge: the lack of standardized and real-time data for corporate actions such as mergers, dividends and stock splits. This data, which is used by investors to track changes in their portfolios, is currently fragmented in markets like Europe.

"Turning various pieces of disconnected corporate actions data into unified ‘golden records’ that can then be relied on by hundreds of market participants as a definitive, single source of truth is truly a huge step forward," Chainlink co-founder Sergey Nazarov said. "This will help financial markets synchronize faster, reduce errors and cut costs."

The initiative's first phase focused on equity and fixed-income corporate actions data in six European countries. Chainlink connected its decentralized oracles with large language models (LLMs) to extract corporate actions data from various sources and transform it into a structured format.

The decentralized oracles, which provide data from the outside world to smart contracts on different blockchains, were integrated with LLMs from OpenAI, Google and Anthoptic to extract data from various sources, including press releases, legal filings and financial news articles. This data was then transformed into a structured format, called "Golden Records," that complies with global financial standards.

Later stages will explore ways to integrate this framework with existing financial systems for broader industry adoption, the report said.

Participants in the initiative include Euroclear, Swift, UBS, Franklin Templeton, Wellington Management, CACEIS, Vontobel and Sygnum Bank. Blockchain ecosystem partners Avalanche (AVAX), ZKsync (ZK) and Hyperledger Besu networks also contributed.

"We're excited about the potential of this collaboration to improve the timeliness, accuracy, and efficiency of corporate actions data dissemination," said Francois Masquelier, Euroclear's head of digital initiatives. "This could ultimately benefit a wide range of market participants, including investors, brokers, and custodians."