Case Study: Commerzbank achieves operational transformation and API agility with Axway AMPLIFY API Management

How Commerzbank improved API development processes with Axway AMPLIFY™ API Management

Commerzbank, a leading international commercial bank serving millions of retail and corporate customers, faced pressure from regulators (PSD2), new market entrants and partner demands to open its legacy systems and accelerate innovation. The bank needed to modernize development processes, improve time-to-market and enable secure API-driven collaboration with FinTechs, but its small initial team and a platform-first approach caused delays and required cultural and architectural changes.

Commerzbank implemented Axway AMPLIFY™ API Management (gateway and manager), built an API developer portal, and migrated toward a hybrid multi‑cloud, containerized architecture with Axway consultancy support. The result was a secure, scalable API platform with operational metrics and growing adoption: the portal went live in 2019, the API team expanded from ~15 to ~80 developers, consumer‑loan APIs are in use, and the bank set targets to scale to hundreds of APIs—demonstrating vendor collaboration and a shift toward agile, use-case driven API development.

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