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Banking and Financial Services

Banking and Financial Services are scaling AI, defending against faster attacks, and proving they can stay resilient and sovereign under rising regulatory pressure. F5 helps you deliver and secure every app, API, model, and agent, wherever it runs.

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Fraud risk Mitigated at the app and API
PCI DSS & DORA Compliance readiness
Sovereignty Keep data under your control
Authorized Reseller AppDeliveryWorks · BlueAlly
Overview

Digital sovereignty and resilience define financial services

Financial institutions face AI-accelerated fraud, an expanding API and AI attack surface, and growing pressure to control where data lives and how services stay available across jurisdictions. Sovereignty has moved from a compliance checkbox to a strategic priority, shaped as much by geopolitics as by regulation.

The F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform (ADSP) delivers high performance and security for financial applications across on-premises, cloud, and edge: mitigating fraud risk, maximizing service availability, and keeping sensitive data under your control.

Better Financial Services — Account holders expect secure and performant apps. F5 helps you deliver.
Greater Visibility — Gain the insights you need across complex finserv hybrid, multicloud environments.
Compliance Readiness — Meet critical requirements, like ones from PCI DSS and DORA, and streamline the audit process.
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Where F5 fits in a financial institution

Agentic AI in banking

The future of banking is shaped by secure, agile, and high-performing AI-powered experiences. F5 enables financial services institutions to protect and optimize the performance of critical AI workflows, while helping you and your account holders confidently unlock new business value from your AI investments.

AI data delivery: Low latency, s3 optimized data pipelines for inference and training
F5 AI Guardrails: Protect financial AI models and agents from prompt injection and data leakage.
F5 AI Red Team: Continuously test models and agents against known adversarial attacks
AI remediate: Turn red team findings into live guardrails, with human approval
API Security: Protect financial AI endpoints against threats and abuse.
Kubernetes Gateway API: Manage inference traffic within and across Kubernetes clusters
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AI-powered app and API security

Attackers are using generative and agentic AI to run automated, real-time fraud campaigns, from deepfakes and synthetic identity theft to credential abuse and account takeover. Defenses built on static rules fall behind the moment criminals retool. F5 meets AI-driven attacks with AI-driven defense, analyzing application and API traffic to detect and stop malicious activity across financial institutions, without adding friction for legitimate account holders

AI powered WAF: Higher threat protection and fewer false positives without constant manual tuning
API Security: Discover every API endpoint and stop abuse and business logic attacks.
Bot Management: Stop credential stuffing, scraping, and account takeover bots and AI agents in real time
BIG-IP SSL Orchestrator: Decrypt and inspect encrypted traffic to expose hidden threats and malware
Client-side protection: Block form-jacking and skimming that steal card and login data in-browser
Unified Management and Visibility: Manage across hybrid multicloud with observability, and automation.
Explore: WAF

Digital operational resilience

Operational resilience is the foundation of digital sovereignty. Outages, conflicts, cyberattacks, and concentration risk all threaten business continuity. F5 delivers resilience through active-active architectures and automated failover across data centers, regions, and clouds, keeping critical banking services available and performant through disruption.

Global server load balancing: Steer traffic to across regions and cloud to keep critical services available
Intelligent traffic management: Balance load across services to absorb demand spikes
Hybrid multicloud networking: End single-provider dependency across clouds and data centers
DDoS protection: Stop volumetric attacks before they take services offline.
Web app scanning: Continuously test for vulnerabilities before they cause an outage.
Digital Sovereignty: Keep financial data under your control and jurisdiction.
Explore: Load balancing

Banking app modernization

Legacy cores and manual processes slow every release, while customers and fintech challengers expect new features at the speed of the market. F5 enables banking, financial services, and insurance providers to modernize app delivery across legacy and modern environments, so teams launch and scale new digital experiences faster, without trading away security or reliability.

Cloud-native traffic management: Route and scale cloud-native banking apps across environments.
Kubernetes ingress: Bring traffic into Kubernetes clusters with enterprise-grade control.
Kubernetes Gateway API: Standardize how services connect inside the cluster
API gateway: Publish and govern the APIs behind new banking features.
WAF for Kubernetes: Protect containerized apps and APIs down to the pod.
BIG-IP Container Ingress Services: Enable Advanced Application Services Across Your Container Environment.
Explore: Cloud-native NGINX

API Security for Open Finance

Open Banking is enabling innovative customer experiences leveraging APIs, but traditional approaches and legacy systems can’t always keep up. That makes having an API security solution—ready to handle security concerns—a must.

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Post quantum readiness

Addressing post-quantum cryptography risks in financial services, with crypto agility that supports post-quantum readiness while minimizing disruption to existing applications and critical services.

Explore: SSL / TLS orchestration
Compliance

Standards F5 helps you meet

Payments PCI DSS Meet the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard across web, mobile and API estates.
EU DORA Understand and evidence Digital Operational Resilience Act compliance in financial services.
Privacy GDPR Support data protection obligations across jurisdictions.
Security ISO 27001 Align to the international information security management standard.
Assurance SOC 2 Type II Independent assurance over security, availability and confidentiality controls.
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