Firstly, I’d like to introduce myself. My name is Rachel Rawlings and I’ve recently joined W2 as Head of Product. I’m so excited to be kicking off the new year with work already starting on ensuring our clients’ experience with W2 is the highest quality possible. Over the past few months our engineering team has been hard at work making various UX improvements to the W2 platform and I thought now …
I was delighted to be invited onto a webinar with one of W2’s partners Trakti who offer a contract negotiation and management platform integrated in the blockchain. After speaking with Trakti CEO Luigi Telesca on the webinar, it reminded me how much the W2 platform has developed in the 4 years I have been working here, and how the focus has very …
The 2020 update of the scrum guide brings a leaner, clearer and less prescriptive guide for the scrum framework. For those who are not familiar with scrum it is a lightweight framework that helps organisations deliver solutions for complex problems in an iterative and incremental way that can reduce risk by adapting to change. At W2 we adopt the scrum framework within the technical team as the industry we operate …
COVID-19 has shattered many businesses and devasted economies worldwide however these challenges have provided an opportunity for many of these impacted entities to flourish as they begin to leverage a whole new digital reality; one that is completely digital and contactless. One Forbes contributor Andrew Filev in his column “COVID-19 Is A Before and After …
Customer-focused innovation centres around the experience of the customer. It’s not just about technology, platform or feature and functional change. It’s about a deep-rooted organizational desire to constantly improve the customer’s journey. For the W2 team, customer-focused innovation begins by listening to our clients at regular ‘whites of their eyes’ [see W2 Autumn 2019 Client …
In any compliance program in any financial institution or corporation, everything must be pivoted on having strong controls. At risk of hefty fines, businesses need to understand what their sanction risks are, where there are risks and how are they managing those risks. However, keeping up with ever-changing Politically Exposed Persons (PEP) and Sanctions lists …
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As part of our strategy for providing the best customer experience W2 have a full suite of integration options including a REST API which complements our SOAP XML API, further strengthening our One API To Rule Them All message.
With testing complete, we’ve now launched the W2 Status Page; a new means of keeping our clients informed of service disruptions, planned or possible outages as well as providing retrospectives (also called Root Cause Analyses). Such publicly facing status page help us further build customer trust and showcase the reliability of our platform with historical …
In the modern world of software development, it is simply not enough to build the best product, service or offering on the market. Mindful of the fines and sanctions outlined within the EU GDPR, and ‘leaks’ of Personal Identifiable Information (PII) continuing to dominate the news headlines, all companies now need to have a highly …
Given breakthroughs in analytics, the better use of ‘big data’ and the continued growth of the Fintech scene, APIs are receiving renewed attention to enhance the delivery of financial services to both retail and business markets. Although the core API value proposition lies in streamlining the systems integration, there is a fine line to walk …
