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Post by elljay on Nov 15, 2013 15:22:13 GMT
Feel free to add any useful resources to the thread - I'll update this first post with them.
Current Links
Historic Links
All links below either no longer work or contain historic info and as such I've minimised them (as of 14.5.21),
First one that comes to mind is my own MI Summary pages. (No longer working) These are driven by the data Zopa make available through their Member Information API(No longer working).
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Post by easteregg on Nov 15, 2013 19:49:15 GMT
If I may also add, I have compiled some information on the Zopa borrower fees on the P2P money website. www.p2pmoney.co.uk/compare/zopafees.htm No Longer Working. Unfortunately Zopa no longer publish the data for the non-A* markets otherwise I would include them here. This information is useful as it shows the point at which Zopa tweak the borrower fees, so it may actually be cheaper for a potential borrower to borrow slightly more to pay a lower fee, and then immediately repay the excess.
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Post by Ton ⓉⓞⓃ on Feb 8, 2016 21:13:03 GMT
Link to the "Old MLB": goo.gl/dM50SO (Zopa seem to have closed this down some time after 30.9.16)for this link to work you need to be logged into your Zopa Account
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Post by gricehead on Dec 13, 2016 16:10:42 GMT
Link to the "Old MLB": goo.gl/dM50SOfor this link to work you need to be logged into your Zopa Account Irregular visitor... Has the "limited time" for Old MLB finally run out? Last time I managed to successfully access it was 30th September.
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Post by aju on Dec 13, 2016 18:34:20 GMT
I'm pretty certain I looked at stuff last week but the last CSV I have from the oldMLB is dated 28th November it worked then. secure.zopa.com seems to have gone off completely, perhaps its just down for a while. To be honest it was getting further and further from being accurate as far as my checks were. Trouble is it was really useful to check loans payments, especially for some PLUS loans that have erratic payments.
I'm keeping my fingers crossed that its just temporary for just that functionality.
My other reason for using it was checking spreadsheets I have that perform similar overview functions that the old reports had. I was starting notice discrepancies especially for non safeguarded loans I still have. The discrepancies are between loans prior to the demise of oldMLB and the newMLB. Perhaps somebody else spotted something untoward and flagged it to Zopa and they pulled it. I guess time will tell.
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Post by marie on Dec 18, 2016 18:29:49 GMT
I find it quite frustrating how difficult it is to find key stats in Zopa. For instance, I would love for there to be an "you are on average earning X% interest in this product/overall". For Z+ in particular, there is "Lent out at X%" and an "Projected return: X%" but nothing to tell me what I'm actually getting. Does anyone have a spreadsheet set up that calculates information that Zopa does not offer? I have had a stab at it myself, but I am afraid my excel skills does not cut the mustard when we start considering early repayments, different loan lengths and the like.
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Post by aju on Dec 20, 2016 0:38:18 GMT
Well sadly the demise of the old loanbook is complete - I received an email yesterday that confirmed its closure.
The email did however offer this additional comment.
"Following the recent re-branding, there is also plenty of redesign coming in the next few months that may hopefully bring back more detailed Loan Book information once again."
A glimmer of hope perhaps, Fingers are crossed.
I just wish they would include a loans closed date - its been suggested that may be included as well.
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Post by Ton ⓉⓞⓃ on Dec 20, 2016 18:22:31 GMT
Well sadly the demise of the old loanbook is complete - I received an email yesterday that confirmed its closure. The email did however offer this additional comment. " Following the recent re-branding, there is also plenty of redesign coming in the next few months that may hopefully bring back more detailed Loan Book information once again." A glimmer of hope perhaps, Fingers are crossed. I just wish they would include a loans closed date - its been suggested that may be included as well. I think I'll email them too on that issue, hopefully the more Users that contacted them about this the higher a priority that take it to be. Though I'm sure they can see how many Users were using the oldMLB.
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Post by aju on Dec 21, 2016 10:58:58 GMT
Trouble is there probably were'nt that many using it and to be honest the data was becoming less and less reliable, fortunately for me I was pulling the old data quite regularly and was able to effect a join on my 150+ pre-safeguarded loans to be able to still identify my old names for them. I was in the middle of trying to create an equivalent summary spreadsheet that |I could just load up both and check my rules and code against both systems when I got distracted and they pulled the loan book. I was struggling over the summary tables and my rules were'nt always getting correct values. Now without the old one to check against it will be more difficult by hey such is life eh
Based on the current reports and the way they a) keep changing, b) no explanations of columns, c) not sure they know what they are doing; I am not convinced they will reproduce the old one especially as they don't seem to know how to make the on screen loanbook easier to use and they seem to be so focused on a single screen table with no horizontal scroll or worse maintain the column titles when scrolling down (such a simple thing I believe), I'm not that hopeful.
Its also a shame that the old tools we used to have, especially the excellent tools two of the old zopa forum members created/amended are now lost to history without a decent loanbook csv. Shame zopa weren't more communicative with these people or able to integrate the old and new loanbooks better.
For me I can throw the odd tool together quickly in excel for my own purposes and I guess its on the fly stuff for the foreseeable future until things mature better.
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Post by marie on Jan 24, 2017 16:31:20 GMT
If it was possible to tap into their API and get the data that way instead of downloading the .csv file, it would be a lot easier to report off. It could all be easily automated. Has anyone tried this?
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Post by aju on Jan 25, 2017 11:19:08 GMT
I'm not sure the api would have the data i am working with its very low level. I've not looked in the last month or so but eljays feeds are not showing much other than the very top level numbers. Perhaps they cut off the other feeds.
I'm happy to be proved wrong though and if I am will be happy to use the api if I can, although to be honest not sure I have all the tools or skills to use that feed.
Which reminds me I need to download the csv's, statements, loanbooks etc this month ;-).
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