Working with Nick Misani on the deco of Swan's new headquarters was so fun. We had a tornado of ideas related to our business, our tech, and even inside jokes, and he helped many of them come to life. I especially love the code on our meeting room doors.
Swan's meeting rooms are quite typically named after European countries. That alone is not unique — but we took it further! We wanted to give a feeling of our tech culture and give a fun nod to the "localization" that is so important to what makes Swan different.
Bear with me while I talk about banking features :)
Swan allows companies to offer banking features to their customers, embedded into their own product: accounts with IBANs, cards with their own logo.
And it's all localized: A Spanish company wants to offer Spanish accounts, with IBANs that start with "ES", with Spanish T&Cs, following Spanish laws.
Every time we launch an office in a new country, we build up localized accounts for that country, with local IBANs. 📍
No, it's not so easy that a developer can just say "Let's add new letters!" 🤡 Swan goes through a long process to get local accounts and local IBANs set up in each country.
So far, we already have IBANs starting with DE, ES, FR, NL, and IT is next.
My IBAN is: FR76 3000.... haha JK. I'm not giving that to you — fraudsters!
So, anyway,
When a developer is building banking features into an app, they connect to our API. And there is specific code that allows to create local IBANs.
We put that code across our meeting room doors.
The "Italian" room has the code for creating a local Italian IBAN starting with "IT," etc.
That's just one of the details we put into the office, but there are many more, all over the place. Thanks Deskeo!
Swan's European team 🇪🇺 200 strong, represents 20+ nationalities spread out across offices in Amsterdam, Berlin, Barcelona, and beyond. For our Paris headquarters, we chose a local team to design the space. 📍
This office enjoys monthly visits from Swanees across Europe thanks to our Visiting Swanees Program 🚄 which allows teammates to spend time working out of any of our hubs.
We love how much personalization we were invited to put into the new space — you can really feel the Swan spirit! ❤️ Thank you Deskeo for your work and continued support.
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