Marking the one-year anniversary of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) reported an increase in public awareness of the legislation; possibly the most important change in data privacy regulation in 20 years. While this fact alone represents a positive step forward, the steepening fines under GDPR and changing requirements for trans-border …
Open Banking is the UK’s response to the EU Payments Services Directive (PSD2); an EU directive requiring banks to share customer transaction data with licensed third parties when requested to do so by the end-user or customer in question. Introduced in January 2018, it is a regulatory roadmap. Developed by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) …
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Shift left is a principle that focuses on sharing your service and support desk’s knowledge within your organization and in time, with its clients, customers and end-users. The basic idea behind shift left is simple. Once a service desk has a knowledge sharing practice in place, they can easily shift their knowledge even further left …
As a part of their Agile Nation 2 Business Programme, W2 were awarded the Chwarae Teg Leading Fair Play Employer Award in early 2019; the highest possible award. Working with Chwarae Teg, W2 were looking to further improve the working environment for all our people. Chwarae Teg is a UK based charity working in Wales …
Little did we know how much there was to gain from getting an updated perspective from the entire company at our recent Simplithon; especially given the informal way in which it was done. Capturing what problems, issues, and pains arise for others gave us a much better understanding of our entire company and the problems …
Most modern organizations operate in a state of constant competition. In order to maintain your market position, business continuity and high availability of your organization’s products, goods or services is paramount. The way that businesses handle the effects of a disaster primarily depends on how well they are prepared for it and how quickly any …
We generally do not like to talk about death however mortality screening is a fundamental part of payments and pensions administration. Without it, increased reputational risk due to the fallout from the painful and often distressing over-payment recovery procedures when dealing with the grieving family; let alone the wasted time, effort and money caused by the administrative overhead.
Sporting their new T shirts (with support from True Form UK) commissioned for the day, the ‘W2 Warriors’ have chosen to take up the challenge presented by Augusts ‘Tough Mudder’ event; all in support of the charity Adult CP Hub. W2 is proudly supporting both the team and the charity as they raise awareness on the issue …
We have carefully selected relevant news stories that you should be aware of from July 2019. Retailers Unprepared For Upcoming SCA Regulations 23rd July 2019: The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has confirmed its intent to implement Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) in online retail. This will apply to online shoppers whose purchase is of more …
The concept of a hackathon is simple – anyone can participate; developer, analyst, technical architect, project manager etc. Hackathons are about creating a new system / idea / solution in a clever and skilful way. It’s called hacking because you are, in fact, clearing as many obstacles as possible to allow teams to focus on …
