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Fastly for Financial Services

Unsurpassed online experiences your clients can trust

Fastly’s financial services unite critical infrastructure to extend visibility and gain comprehensive control -- all while keeping security front and center. From the ground up, our platform was designed to be an extension of your network and to give you a competitive edge to deliver experiences that are fast, engaging, and secure.

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Powering the best of the Internet

  • Affirm
  • Marqeta
  • Wepay
  • Kickstarter
  • Bankrate
  • GoFundMe
  • Betterment
  • investor
NEW! Executive Guide

Director's guide to resilient fintech infrastructure

Learn the five infrastructure questions every fintech leader should be asking. Discover how leading financial organizations are strengthening API security, reducing origin dependency, improving observability, preparing for AI-driven traffic, and simplifying operations without compromising performance or resilience.

Security with no trade-offs

Secure customer data and strengthen security posture

Implement bot protection and anti-automation at the edge to eliminate excessive abuse and misuse of application resources that power fraudulent activity. Fastly’s PCI DSS-compliant network protects against web application vulnerabilities, DDoS, and botnet attacks. Our Next-Gen WAF effectively detects and blocks malicious traffic without the need for rules optimization.

Instantly Scale

Survive and thrive through high-traffic events with ease

Fastly’s built-in routing and load balancing intelligently handle large volumes of simultaneous requests without capacity constraints or bottlenecks. Benefit from actionable insights to respond to customer behaviors, security issues, and Internet weather with our instant visibility into request response times, origin failures, or suspicious traffic.

Stripe adds intelligent caching for improved performance with Fastly

Financial services

"I would definitely recommend Fastly to other companies. Having had a really great experience with Fastly at my last job, it was one of the first recommendations I made while I was interviewing at Stripe. Our customers have huge pipelines that come down to the checkout moment, and we have to ensure that everything goes smoothly."

Marc Hedlund

VP of Engineering

Industry Report

Modernize FinServ security to accelerate threat response

Previously unjustifiable migration costs are easily warranted with enhanced security tools that require significantly reduced tuning and maintenance efforts, as well as more accurate blocking, and much faster incident resolution times.

Security Checklist

Build faster, more resilient FinTech security stacks

What does it take to secure modern financial applications? Learn how to protect critical APIs , block bot attacks without constant rule tuning , maintain stability during massive traffic surges , and simplify fragmented systems to easily meet tough regulatory expectations.

Autoscaling production application security in Betterment’s CI/CD pipeline

Financial services

“After deployment and configuration there have been zero false positives. This has reduced the workload on Security while also providing a very friendly user experience. It also allows the team to configure and modify rules addressing new attack vectors and payloads in an ever evolving threat landscape, to help mitigate business risk.”

Anson Gomes

Lead Security Engineer

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