Deutsche Bank adopts Google Cloud's Apigee for APIs
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Deutsche Bank has adopted Google Cloud's Apigee as its central API management platform. The system now manages the bank's API ecosystem across internal services, partner connections and customer applications. The move is central to Deutsche Bank's effort to replace a legacy estate built around monolithic systems with a more modular architecture. The platform is used to catalogue endpoints, apply security rules and oversee governance for APIs used in open banking, internal microservices and digital banking channels. APIs have become central to how banks connect systems, share data and deliver services to customers and partners. Deutsche Bank said it needed a single management layer rather than separate teams building and governing interfaces independently. Every endpoint, version and dependency is documented in a central catalogue, allowing development teams to find and reuse existing APIs instead of creating new ones for the same task. The platform also enforces standards such as OpenAPI specifications, schema validation and error handling through its policy framework. Security controls Security is one of the main areas where Deutsche Bank said the platform has changed its approach. The bank described its model as based on least-privilege access, using OAuth2 scopes and API key management to define what a service or application can reach. That means a service can be limited...
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