Migrating API Keys to Tyk and Managing Key Rotation
When organizations migrate from one API management platform to another, API key continuity and rotation strategy are critical concerns. API Owners want to avoid disrupting existing API Consumers while also ensuring a secure and manageable key lifecycle moving forward. For teams migrating to Tyk, the process typically involves two phases: Importing existing API keys to […]
How to achieve 99.999% platform uptime
Need to build a highly available, ultra resilient financial platform? In a world of shifting customer loyalties and ever-new attack vectors, doing so is crucial to financial institutions’ long-term success. At the LEAP 2026 conference, Arunkumar Ganesan, a distinguished engineer at CapitalOne, shared his experience of building financial platforms for 99.999% (“five nine”) uptime. Prior […]
Why your API infrastructure isn’t ready for AI (and what to do about it)
Most financial institutions have spent years building API infrastructure. Few have built it to support what comes next. At LEAP 2026, Mark Boyd, founder of Platformable, laid out the problem clearly: the adoption gap in Open Banking and AI isn’t a technology problem. It’s a context problem. Banks are deploying APIs without a structured understanding […]
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 […]
Tyk joins the Financial Data Exchange: Advancing Open Finance in the age of agentic AI
Tyk is proud to announce its membership in the Financial Data Exchange (FDX) – the standards-setting body formally recognized by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) under the Personal Financial Data Rights rule. FDX is dedicated to unifying and securing user-permissioned financial data sharing across North America. Why FDX and why now? “The convergence of […]
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 […]
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 […]