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AI-ready API management company Tyk has announced the appointment of three new senior leaders, as it strengthens its support for banks in the US financial sector. The strategic appointments come as banks increasingly evolve their use of APIs towards monetization. Martin Buhr, Founder and CEO of Tyk, which specializes in providing practical blueprints for integrating AI in a way that’s well-governed, efficient, and future-ready, explains:
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“Just a couple of years ago, banks were coming to us focused on basic authentication and control requests. Now, it’s becoming the norm for them to use APIs to underpin new monetization strategies, as well as seamless regulatory compliance. We’ve helped leading global banks make the change and are excited to have three API industry veterans – Mark Gurvis, Laura Heritage and Kuldeepak Angrish – on board to deliver even deeper sector expertise to our clients.”
The three senior appointments will accelerate Tyk’s growth in the financial services sector, as the company supports leading financial institutions to monetize API access and assert more control over digital distribution. Having worked with top-tier banks, insurers, and fintechs on platform modernization and integration initiatives, the three new hires bring extensive experience of the intersection of API strategy and financial infrastructure.
Mark Gurvis joins as VP Sales Americas. An API management industry stalwart with a proven record of success, he was a key contributor to growth at Apigee, leading to its acquisition, and to enterprise API management, industry transformation and growth strategy at Rapid. He comments:
“The world’s largest banks are evolving their business models rapidly to embrace API monetization while seamlessly fulfilling their regulatory compliance obligations. A strategic approach to operationalizing APIs is at the forefront of enabling this, as well as ensuring banks are AI-ready. I’m excited to be working with Tyk to support the world’s leading banks in this shift.”
Laura Heritage takes up the position of API Strategist, Financial Services with Tyk, bringing deep financial services industry knowledge to the role. Founder and President of Openfinity, which helped financial services professionals navigate the open finance and AI landscape, her experience of API strategy, financial services innovation and marketplace ecosystems will be invaluable to Tyk clients. Laura comments:
“Financial institutions are rethinking APIs. They’re no longer just technical interfaces but commercially valuable products in their own right. This requires a new focus on their strategic importance, as well as the security and compliance implications of this evolution. As this shift towards monetization drives demand for governance-first API platforms, I’m delighted to be delivering agile, scalable and innovative solutions as part of the Tyk team.”
Kuldeepak Angrish, a technical strategy and implementation expert with over a decade of experience in API management, takes up the role of Solutions Architect with Tyk. His focus is on helping organizations leverage Tyk’s technology to monetize, while boosting customer experiences and ensuring compliance – all with an awareness of the need for AI-readiness. Kuldeepak comments:
“Banks are increasingly treating APIs as critical business assets. I’m thrilled to be supporting them to do so at Tyk, delivering the technical fluency needed to help financial institutions modernize their API infrastructure and unlock its full value.”
Tyk already partners with leading global institutions including Barclays, NatWest, Capital One, TAB Bank, and Randolph-Brooks Federal Credit Union (RBFCU), helping them govern and scale their APIs on a platform built for the AI-ready era. Positioned at the forefront of the contemporary API solutions market, and free of the limitations that legacy API management platforms face within financial services, Tyk delivers crucial agility, efficiency and compliance support. Its expanded US team will deepen partnerships across the financial services sector, supporting customers to monetize, secure and scale their APIs in line with emerging commercial and compliance priorities.
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Tyk was founded in 2016 with a mission to connect every system in the world. Today, leading global businesses choose Tyk to deliver exceptional API experiences across every sector and every continent. In the financial services industry alone, Tyk powers 100 million people’s financial transactions daily.
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Tyk scales up in US financial sector
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — An ailing astronaut returned to Earth with three others on Thursday, ending their space station mission more than a month early in NASA’s first medical evacuation.
SpaceX guided the capsule to a middle-of-the-night splashdown in the Pacific near San Diego, less than 11 hours after the astronauts exited the International Space Station.
“It’s so good to be home,” said NASA astronaut Zena Cardman, the capsule commander.
It was an unexpected finish to a mission that began in August and left the orbiting lab with only one American and two Russians on board. NASA and SpaceX said they would try to move up the launch of a fresh crew of four; liftoff is currently targeted for mid-February.
Cardman and NASA’s Mike Fincke were joined on the return by Japan’s Kimiya Yui and Russia’s Oleg Platonov. Officials have refused to identify the astronaut who had the health problem or explain what happened, citing medical privacy.
While the astronaut was stable in orbit, NASA wanted them back on Earth as soon as possible to receive proper care and diagnostic testing. The entry and splashdown required no special changes or accommodations, officials said, and the recovery ship had its usual allotment of medical experts on board. It was not immediately known when the astronauts would fly from California to their home base in Houston. Platonov’s return to Moscow was also unclear.
NASA stressed repeatedly over the past week that this was not an emergency. The astronaut fell sick or was injured on Jan. 7, prompting NASA to call off the next day’s spacewalk by Cardman and Fincke, and ultimately resulting in the early return. It was the first time NASA cut short a spaceflight for medical reasons. The Russians had done so decades ago.
The space station has gotten by with three astronauts before, sometimes even with just two. NASA said it will be unable to perform a spacewalk, even for an emergency, until the arrival of the next crew, which has two Americans, one French and one Russian astronaut.
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This screengrab from video provided by NASA shows the NASA's SpaceX Crew-11 capsule being taken into the recovery vessel after crew members re entered the earth in a middle-of-the-night splashdown near San Diego, Calif., Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026. (NASA via AP)
This screengrab from video provided by NASA shows NASA astronaut Mike Fincke getting helped out of the SpaceX Crew-11 capsule after they re-entered the earth in a middle-of-the-night splashdown near San Diego, Calif., Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026. (NASA via AP)
This screengrab from video provided by NASA shows NASA Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui being helped out of the SpaceX Crew-11 capsule after they re-entered the earth in a middle-of-the-night splashdown near San Diego, Calif., Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026. (NASA via AP)
This screengrab from video provided by NASA shows Russian astronaut Oleg Platonov being helped out of the SpaceX Crew-11 capsule after they re-entered the earth in a middle-of-the-night splashdown near San Diego, Calif., Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026. (NASA via AP)
Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, left, NASA astronauts Mike Fincke, Zena Cardman, and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Kimiya Yui are seen inside the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft onboard the SpaceX recovery ship SHANNON shortly after having landed in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Long Beach, Calif., Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026. (NASA via AP)
This screengrab from video provided by NASA shows NASA astronaut Zena Cardman being helped out of the SpaceX Crew-11 capsule after they re-entered the earth in a middle-of-the-night splashdown near San Diego, Calif., Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026. (NASA via AP)
This screengrab from video provided by NASA TV shows the SpaceX Dragon departing from the International Space Station shortly after undocking with four NASA Crew-11 members inside on Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026. (NASA via AP)
This photo provided by NASA shows clockwise from bottom left are, NASA astronaut Mike Fincke, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, NASA astronaut Zena Cardman, and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Kimiya Yui gathering for a crew portrait wearing their Dragon pressure suits during a suit verification check inside the International Space Station’s Kibo laboratory module, Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026. (NASA via AP)
This screengrab from video provided by NASA shows recovery vessels approaching the NASA's SpaceX Crew-11 capsule to evacuate one of the crew members after they re-entered the earth in a middle-of-the-night splashdown near San Diego, Calif., Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026. (NASA via AP)
This screengrab from video provided by NASA shows the NASA's SpaceX Crew-11 members re entering the earth in a middle-of-the-night splashdown near San Diego, Calif., Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026. (NASA via AP)
This screengrab from video provided by NASA shows the NASA's SpaceX Crew-11 members re entering the earth in a middle-of-the-night splashdown near San Diego, Calif., Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026. (NASA via AP)
