We won the Webby!

A rather belated blog from us… (hanging head in shame)
We won the Webby award for Financial Services. Huzzah!!
Thank you to all the borrowers and lenders for helping make Zopa what it is.

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Quick, cast your vote.

If you haven’t already voted for us you have until tomorrow to get your voice heard!
We’ve been nominated in the Banking/Bill Paying section (which we won last year) AND in the Financial Services category. You can vote for us in both categories and we promise to come back with a fetching photo should we [...]

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We’re up for another Webby!

We’ve just been told we’ve been nominated for a Webby…. well, possibly 4. Read on.
Zopa.com has been nominated for The 12th Annual Webby Awards in the Banking/Bill Paying category and also the Financial Services category. Get us!
Last year we won the award for the Banking/Bill paying category and this year we’re canvassing for your help.
You [...]

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Transcript for credit webchat

This afternoon we held a live webchat with Murray Bailey, our UK Director of Risk. If you couldn’t make it, don’t worry! We’d hate to see you miss out, so you can read the transcript here.
Enjoy!

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Credit webchat at 2-3pm today

We’re hosting a live webchat at 2pm today with our UK Director of Risk, Murray Bailey.
If you have any Zopa credit questions you’d like to ask, please do come along. The chat will run for an hour and we look forward to seeing you there.
We’re using a group chat tool for this session so click [...]

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Time for some weekend reading

After celebrating our third birthday and then with two short weeks on the trot with Easter last week, we’re ready for the weekend and a bit of a sit down. We’ve also not blogged for a bit, so here’s a quick bit of reading for you on a Friday evening as you clutch your final [...]

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Chick this out

The Zopa office will be closed while we all partake in a giant Easter egg hunt. We’ve been told it will start on Friday 21st March and we shouldn’t expect to be back until Tuesday 25th. Eggs in arms, ready to get back to work.
We’ve added a couple of threads about this on our discussion [...]

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Site maintenance - Monday 17th March 2008

Today we’ll be taking the Zopa site down for around 2 hours; from 4-6pm.
While we’re upgrading our current hardware, you will be able to view general Zopa pages but will not be able to view account information.
During this time, the discussion boards and blog will be available, so feel free to chat with [...]

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Online chat - 4th April 2008

We’re holding an online chat on Friday 4th April at 2-3pm. This chat will be with Murray Bailey, our UK Director of Risk.
Murray was previously Credit Risk Director for GE Capital, Citibank and HFC Bank with over 20 years experience of consumer credit risk management.
If you can’t make the time but have a question you’d [...]

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Site maintenance - Monday 17th March 4-6pm

The Zopa site will be down for around 2 hours on Monday 17th March, from 4-6pm.
We’re upgrading our current hardware to something new and shiny and it might (hopefully) be a little quicker when we come back online.
Here’s to system migrations!
Thanks for your patience while the work is done.

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The news story everyone is talking about

The papers have been full of one story today. The Budget? No. The chef that will only eat biscuits!
We tried to think of something to blog about from the budget but the biscuit eating chef was much more interesting.. Well, we thought so.
Today, the metro had the story of Andrew Foster who has a [...]

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3 things we’ll do for our third birthday

As you’ve probably guessed by now… we’re all in the celebrating mood. It’s our 3rd birthday (have we mentioned that enough yet?), it’s Friday and… well I think that’s reason enough for some merriment!
So, I’ve been accosting people in the office, asking them what 3 things they’ll be doing to celebrate our birthday. I’ve picked [...]

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Happy birthday to you

It’s not just us celebrating our birthday today, here’s a few of our members that are also celebrating being a year older(!) today.
acampbell
andrewguppy
Area13
bandrew
briarcal
bumplump
ctd2005
Delltronic
dusidog
gscas64
importer
kingsgate
liambennett
mzscorpion
PeterGA
pjnfc
scampion
soopersoo
theloaner
wadds
wally2006
zaphodb
Personal favourite ID has to be bumplump! Happy birthday to you all.

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Balloooooons

What do you need at a third birthday party?
First thing we think of is balloons! what do you need if you don’t have a giant canister of helium to blow them all up? You need a Jesper!
Our Jesper took a minute to help create an impressive(!) wall of balloons. He’s having a sit down [...]

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Countdown to our birthday

We’re getting a tad excited here in the office. Party poppers are on standby and silly hats are threatening to make an appearance. We’ll be three years old on Friday 7th (huzzah!)
If you have 3 minutes to spare (seeing as it’s our 3rd birthday..) what 3 words would you use to describe Zopa? You can [...]

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Read all about it!

What a great start to the day. The sun is shining, we are all unscathed after the earthquake last night and to top it off; today Giles appears in The Independent!
According to The Independent, we are one of “The Googles of tomorrow”. In an article which appears in the paper today Robert [...]

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Watch out for those malfunctioning doors.

We saw an article today which tickled our funny bone. There appears to be a spate of malfunctioning doors hitting banks around the country. The latest sees a man being locked in his bank for over an hour and a half. This comes after a 5 year old boy walked into a ‘closed’ bank [...]

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Share-A-Load

We’re loving the idea of this - a new system in the Philippines that lets mobile users share their credit with each other and top each other up if they are running low. Using technology to enable human beings connect with each other and exchange valuable things? Hmmm . . . . that [...]

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