Financial Institution Automates API Governance and Improves Standardization with API Hub for Design
Overview
A leading financial institution recognized the need to enhance API governance and enforce standardization to meet internal and industry compliance requirements. By implementing API Hub for Design, the company aimed to create a consistent, centralized environment for managing API documentation, validation, and collaboration across development teams.
Automated
Manual API validation was replaced with real-time compliance enforcement, accelerating review cycles
Standardized
API definitions were centralized, ensuring consistent documentation across repositories
Aligned
Mocking capabilities enabled earlier collaboration between frontend and backend teams, improving API design clarity
Approach
The institution adopted API Hub for Design to:
- Automate governance and validation with built-in rules that reduced manual review and ensured policy compliance.
- Enable early testing and collaboration using API mocking to validate designs pre-implementation.
- Centralize documentation and version control, providing a single source of truth for all API definitions.
These improvements allowed development teams to work in parallel, align expectations early, and accelerate time to value.
Benefits
By adopting API Hub for Design, the company transformed its API governance strategy, moving from a manual review process to an automated validation system. Developers now receive real- time compliance feedback, reducing errors and expediting API approval processes. The organization’s shift to a design-first development model was facilitated through API Hub for Design’s mocking capabilities, allowing teams to validate API behavior early and align expectations between development teams and stakeholders. This improved collaboration and reduced development cycle times.