With Kong, financial institutions can run their applications anywhere — on-premises, in the cloud, or a hybrid environment — using a federated model that accommodates each application teams’ unique requirements with corporate best practices. This flexibility significantly speeds up time to market for new services and streamlines deployment. Build memorable customer experiences on the super lightweight, superfast API platform.

Kong offers an extensive and growing ecosystem of out-of-the-box plugins for security, authentication, rate limiting, analytics, and more. This empowers financial services to customize their API management without increasing platform complexity. Leverage plugins for open policy agent (OPA) to write declarative policies and OpenID Connect or OIDC to integrate Kong with a third party identity provider (IdP). With Kong, financial services have complete flexibility to address current and future use cases.

A single improperly secured API could bring down an entire company and its reputation. Kong helps you solve complex security challenges, with less effort, through a completely programmable API platform. Kong offers a comprehensive set of built-in security features, including API-based security policies and configurations along with numerous plugins to make it easy and fast for you to add the functionality to address your exact requirements.

Kong offers an industry standard approach to zero-trust security with low operational complexity and fast deployment. Kong Konnect provides you complete visibility into your API landscape by managing and governing your services meshes and API gateways from a single unified platform.