Australian Neobank Brings New, Innovative Banking Experience to Customers Through Modern Microservices and Kubernetes Architecture
Kong Inc., the leading cloud connectivity company, announced that Xinja Bank, Australia’s fully digital neobank, has deployed Kong Enterprise to power its modern, microservices-driven mobile banking platform. With Kong’s service connectivity platform, Xinja can now more effectively connect, secure and manage all of its APIs and services, while ensuring architectural flexibility and scalability as the company continues to innovate and grow. Kong makes it possible for Xinja to quickly deploy innovative new products and services that are available from any device, real-time and provide the responsiveness customers are demanding.
As a 100-percent digital bank designed for mobile, Xinja is bringing a new kind of bank to customers and revolutionizing the entire banking experience. This includes not just providing traditional banking products but also integrating with other valuable products through open APIs to deliver a financial ecosystem to their customers. The launch of Xinja’s lending platform, currently being developed, will see the first introduction of Kong into Xinja’s infrastructure. “Our lending origination partner needed us to expose our APIs in a way that was secure and compliant with OIDC standards,” said Rohan Sharp, co-founder and head of architecture at Xinja Bank. “This was easy with Kong; not only could we comply with industry standards, but we could protect our APIs and internal landscape quickly and with low risk – while minimizing impacts on Xinja’s existing infrastructure.”
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Kong Enterprise, combined with Kong’s extensive plugins hub, enables Xinja to open up its APIs in an efficient, rapid and scalable way that exposes the services as well as allows the team to structure and secure the APIs. The platform’s Developer Portal provides the company with an easy and flexible way to present a public-facing portal to the outside developer community who access its APIs. This will be crucial to Xinja’s business as the industry moves towards open banking and more third-party developers start to engage with the application.
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