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.
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.
Account holders expect secure and performant apps. F5 helps you deliver.
Gain the insights you need across complex finserv hybrid, multicloud environments.
Meet critical requirements, like ones from PCI DSS and DORA, and streamline the audit process.
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.
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Low latency, s3 optimized data pipelines for inference and training
Protect financial AI models and agents from prompt injection and data leakage.
Continuously test models and agents against known adversarial attacks
Turn red team findings into live guardrails, with human approval
Protect financial AI endpoints against threats and abuse.
Manage inference traffic within and across Kubernetes clusters
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
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Higher threat protection and fewer false positives without constant manual tuning
Discover every API endpoint and stop abuse and business logic attacks.
Stop credential stuffing, scraping, and account takeover bots and AI agents in real time
Decrypt and inspect encrypted traffic to expose hidden threats and malware
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.
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.
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Global server load balancing
Steer traffic to across regions and cloud tokeep critical services available
Intelligent traffic management
Balance load across services to absorb demand spikes
End single-provider dependency across clouds and data centers
Stop volumetric attacks before they take services offline.
Continuously test for vulnerabilities before they cause an outage.
Keep financial data under your control and jurisdiction.
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.
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Cloud-native traffic management
Route and scale cloud-native banking apps across environments.
Bring traffic into Kubernetes clusters with enterprise-grade control.
Kubernetes Gateway API
Standardize how services connect inside the cluster
Publish and govern the APIs behind new banking features.
Protect containerized apps and APIs down to the pod.
Enable Advanced Application Services Across Your Container Environment.
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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Discover every API endpoint and stop abuse and business logic attacks.
Govern every third-party connection to your open finance APIs.
Protect the web apps from OWASP Top 10 threats and evolving threats.
Block automated abuse of customer-facing open finance endpoints.
Adversaries are capturing encrypted financial data today to decrypt once quantum computing matures. F5 delivers protection against harvest now and decrypt later attacks enforcing post-quantum encryption where traffic terminates. This buys FinServ organizations time to make the rest of the estate quantum-ready, without downtime or re-architecting apps.
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Centralizes quantum-safe encryption management, making it easier to adopt.
Provides client and server quantum-resilience with NIST-standard algorithms.
Quantum-safe security for APIs and microservices.
Extends PQC to VPNs across the enterprise and hybrid infrastructure.
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