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Transforming the future of digital banking with APIs and DataSecOps

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  • Lancos, Peter

    (eXate, UK)

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Digital banking involves high levels of process automation and web-based services and may include application programming interfaces (APIs) enabling crossinstitutional service composition to deliver banking products and provide transactions. It enables users to have access to their financial data via their digital devices. APIs represent as great a threat and an opportunity to banks today as the advent of the digital era once did, opening the market to greater competition around customer loyalty and engagement. Banks should not consider these APIs as simply technical interfaces that expose data to third parties but rather as radical enablers of new and attractive customer experiences. APIs are already commonplace across many industry sectors, where they are, in fact, viewed as customer products. Banks will have to follow suit in order to remain competitive. In brief, APIs are the nucleus of digital transformation. Around 84.5 per cent of those working on digital transformation initiatives state that APIs are playing a significant role in those initiatives.1 Given the risk of API-first architecture, these numbers are expected to continue to grow. There are risks, however, that companies face as a result of the increased reliance on APIs as the main driver of digital banking. Seventy one per cent of software engineers surveyed considered ‘security’ the most important factor to consider before integration with an API, which was tied for the top concern.2 While software engineers are aware of this risk, there is a need to address it not only at a technology level, but at a risk and business level as well. In order to address these risks, the concept of Data Security Operations, or ‘DataSecOps’, has arisen. DataSecOps is a discipline that empowers software engineers, data scientists, governance risk and control, cybersecurity & operations teams to work together in a single application for safer and easier access, analysis, delivery and governance of data.3 DataSecOps principles will become a critical component in addressing the security issues related to digital banking.

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  • Lancos, Peter, 2021. "Transforming the future of digital banking with APIs and DataSecOps," Journal of Digital Banking, Henry Stewart Publications, vol. 6(3), pages 270-276, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:aza:jdb000:y:2021:v:6:i:3:p:270-276
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    Keywords

    API; digital era; security; DataSecOps; financial services; privacy; identity and access management;
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    JEL classification:

    • G2 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services
    • E5 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit

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