Access Worldpay Articles

News and insights about who we are, what we do and how we work.

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Machine learning - the key to modern fraud detection

Machine learning detects fraud more efficiently than ever - and that has everything to do with the data ...

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Working data harder (2) - how Lean SDLC has made us better

Extracting more value from data, tools and knowledge has made Access Worldpay's teams faster ...

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Visa Original Credit Transaction (OCT) - A new mandate

An Original Credit Transaction (OCT) is a Visa transaction type which allows the transfer ...

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Working data harder (1) - how and why we developed a Lean SDLC

To become faster and better, Access Worldpay has created a Lean SDLC that automates ...

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Rethinking the roadmap - using data to release the right features

Collecting customer data more effectively ...

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From finding defects to preventing defects

Krishna Sowjanya Chandrappagari explains why getting requirements right is important, and how Access Worldpay has ...

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CCA over TLS with Access Worldpay

A straightforward guide to creating keys and certificates to get start using TLS Client Certificate Authentication, aka Mutual ...

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Protecting innovation

In Agile organizations, urgent deadlines often override innovation. By protecting creativity, Access Worldpay builds cultural capital, becomes more sustainable and ...

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Five principles of circuit breakers

Circuit breakers provide a complementary protection to timeouts. But whereas timeouts exist primarily to protect a client, circuit ...

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Demystifying card payments pt.2

This is the second in a series of articles explaining card payments, systems and products. Here, we give and overview of the two ...

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Women in tech

Four women at Access Worldpay describe how they got here, their experiences working as engineers, andadvice they'd give young women today.

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Being Black in tech

Our colleagues talk about their experience, the bias and stereotypes in tech and how, as the world becomes ever more interconnected, diversity and inclusion are key ...

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Writing the docs in the Agile era

The key to success in an Agile environment is to get involved - in every way you can and as early in the process as possible. Here ...

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Demystifying card payments pt.1

This is the first in a series of articles explaining card payments, systems and products. Here, we explain who does what ...

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Talking timeouts

In software development, timeouts are a necessary evil - a choice to inflict minor pain on client code in order to avoid something worse. Although simple to apply, ...

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Combining innovation and security in payments tech

Stereotypes can be persistent and pervasive. They can also be wrong. Take security vs. ...

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Creating a new way of working

Asked to build a set of cutting-edge payments services, the Access Worldpay leadership team had a blank slate when deciding ...

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Maintaining mental health while working remotely

In a year of unknowns, some things are now clear. For example, that recent events ...

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All about Scala

You're tasked with building a brand new suite of networked APIs that let merchants easily tailor payments products to their needs...

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How post-incident reviews happen

When something goes wrong, it's important to find out why - and how to avoid similar incidents in the future. This is the ...

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Why post-incident reviews matter

Just sometimes, something goes wrong. In IT operations, we call this an 'incident'. After high-impact incidents, ...

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Notes from a lockdown

It all happened so fast. Although reports of the coronavirus had grown more persistent and alarming, instructions to lock down and stay home still involved major ...

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PI Planning in a pandemic

PI Planning plays a crucial role at Access Worldpay. Involving more than 100 people meeting offsite every quarter, it's ...

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Sticking to a principle

Principles matter. For any group, of any size, principles bring clarity, they provide a sense of purpose and they offer direction when the road ahead is difficult or complex...

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Investing in our people

Workplace distractions are an indigestible all-you-can-eat buffet. It starts with the sugary snacks, like Twitter, Instagram, Amazon or eBay...

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Engineering leadership

Faced with a pile of LEGO, any child knows that building something from scratch involves lots of decisions - about who can help, what to build, and whether it can be ...

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Our adaptation of shift-left in QA

It's almost a parallel universe. Although part of a global organization with vast reach and huge responsibilities, Access ...

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What does TDD mean to us?

Global companies rarely get to write software from scratch, reappraising existing code, methods and assumptions before deciding ...

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How continuous integration underpins lean, agile ways of working

To experience the breathless pace of software development today ...

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Growing in breadth and depth

If you want real speed, it pays to be smooth. Put another way, to give your customers the truly responsive and reliable service they expect ...

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Access Worldpay people

Access Worldpay is our new set of fast APIs, supporting simple integrations with fault-tolerant, micro, and scalable services ...

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