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Case Study: First Abu Dhabi Bank cuts operating costs 57% with Kong

First Abu Dhabi Bank Case StudySourced & dated by Case Study Desk

Key facts · TL;DR

Company

First Abu Dhabi Bank

Industry

Banking

Challenge

Refactoring monolithic banking applications into cloud-native microservices across multi-cloud and on-prem.

Headline result

57% lower operating costs and app delivery cut from 7 to 3 months

Key results

57%

Lower operational costs

60%

Reduction in application delivery time

3 months

Mobile banking app delivery

down from 7 months

4 months

Custom development time saved annually

The challenge

First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB) needed to refactor monolithic applications and adopt a microservices architecture while transforming from legacy systems to cloud-native infrastructure. The environment spanned multi-cloud (AWS, Azure) and on-premises deployments.

The solution

FAB deployed Kong's modular API Gateway together with the Kong Ingress Controller and industry-standard plugins that work out of the box. This reduced custom development and enabled efficient provisioning of APIs across its containerized ecosystem.

“The scalability and agility that Kong provides our bank is best in class compared to any other service connectivity platforms.”
JG
Jayakumar Ganesan
Head of Service - Digital Platforms, First Abu Dhabi Bank

The results, in context

Per Kong's published case study, FAB reduced operational costs by 57% and cut application delivery time by 60%, delivering its mobile banking app in 3 months versus 7 months previously. The bank also reported saving 4 months of custom development time annually and runs roughly 200 APIs in production.

Products used

Kong Kong GatewayKong Kong Ingress Controller