Agentic engineering in financial services
The shift from operating tools to directing outcomes McKinsey’s CEO Bob Sternfels recently revealed that the firm now counts roughly 25,000 AI agents alongside its 40,000 human employees. Eighteen months ago, the agent count was 3,000. The strategy is to achieve parity by the end of 2026. Efficiency is key here; those agents saved 1.5 […]
Beyond 502: Why HTTP Status Codes Aren’t Enough for Modern API Troubleshooting
TL;DR: Your API returns a 502 error. Is it a DNS failure? TLS certificate expired? Connection refused? Backend timeout? With traditional HTTP logging, you’d spend 60 minutes checking logs, SSHing into servers, and cross-referencing timestamps to find out. Tyk v5.12.0 reduces this to 5 minutes with enhanced error classification that tells you exactly what went […]
Two ways to deal with NGINX killing its Ingress Controller
NGINX has decided you’ll be migrating in the near future. From March 2026, it will deprecate its Ingress Controller. While existing deployments will continue to function, and installation artifacts will remain available, it’s a slippery downhill slope from March onwards. As NGINX puts it: “There will be no further releases, no bugfixes, and no updates […]
Tyk 5.11: Operational confidence and developer productivity for effective scaling
Tyk 5.11 has arrived, building on our enterprise security foundation with advanced authentication controls, improved certificate management, and enhanced observability. Time to empower your teams to scale their API programs efficiently and effectively! With this release, we’re delivering the confidence your teams need in relation to security, operational control, visibility, performance, and stability. Everything that […]
2026: The Year APIs and AI Become Non-Negotiable for Financial Services
Ten priorities every bank and credit union must address to grow, not retreat, in the year ahead I’ve spent my career at the intersection of APIs and financial services, from Axway to OpenFinity, and now at Tyk, where I lead our financial services practice. If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that the institutions that […]
When every API call matters: How a financial giant transformed Monday mornings
A Fortune 100 financial services company turned API alerting chaos into calm. In this blog, we look at the way API alerting was turned into a product which delivers measurable impact and supports the organisations AI transformation..
Tyk 5.10: Stronger security, greater flexibility, smoother experiences for modern APIs
Modern API management demands three foundational components: enterprise-grade security, open-standards-driven flexibility, and a platform experience that just works. Tyk 5.10 delivers all three! From multi-auth patterns that adapt to any client’s need, to JWT validation that scales with your architecture, to proactive certificate monitoring that prevents outages before they happen—this release transforms how you secure […]
Five things we learned from API leaders in financial services
Over the past couple of months, we’ve been deep in discussion with industry leaders, decision makers and practitioners from the financial services industry. While Apidays London and Gartner AIBS Summit provided a great overview of the API landscape in 2025, the Tyk Future Forum brought together customers, prospects and partners to discuss the future of […]
Are your financial services APIs ready for AI? A CTO’s checklist
Financial services firms around the globe are using and building AI. KMPG insights from late 2024 show that 62% of US companies are using AI to a moderate or large degree, 58% are piloting or deploying generative AI and 52% are using AI specifically in financial reporting. In the UK, a Bank of England and […]
Future-proofing API management in financial services: A roadmap for 2025 and beyond
Author: Laura Heritage, Solutions Architect, Financial Services, Tyk Over the past 15 years in the US financial services industry, I’ve launched new platforms, defined regulatory-compliant product lines, built go-to-market strategies, and scaled ecosystems. It’s been a busy and exciting time to be in financial services tech, but as I look forward, there’s so much more […]