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Post by hayhurst on Sept 15, 2015 9:33:41 GMT
Any update on timescales for enabling the sale of loans subject to monitoring and credit events?
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Post by webwiz on Sept 15, 2015 10:31:04 GMT
Hovering over "Current Cash Balance" showed zero, just after I had made a withdrawal from QAA. but it showed up on the account OK.
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Post by SteveT on Sept 21, 2015 10:13:58 GMT
Please could we have another "Show 10/25/50/100" pull-down at the BOTTOM of the Browns Loans page? I always forget to set it to 100 before scrolling down and then have to scroll back to the top of the page to do so.
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ianj
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Post by ianj on Sept 21, 2015 11:22:17 GMT
Please could we have another "Show 10/25/50/100" pull-down at the BOTTOM of the Browns Loans page? I always forget to set it to 100 before scrolling down and then have to scroll back to the top of the page to do so. Better still, if we were able to keep 100 (or other as desired) as a permanent selection. I'm sure this has been requested previously, and IIRC, we were advised it might be considered....but not when! 
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Post by ianj on Sept 21, 2015 17:40:14 GMT
Please could we have another "Show 10/25/50/100" pull-down at the BOTTOM of the Browns Loans page? I always forget to set it to 100 before scrolling down and then have to scroll back to the top of the page to do so. Better still, if we were able to keep 100 (or other as desired) as a permanent selection. I'm sure this has been requested previously, and IIRC, we were advised it might be considered....but not when! Yes, I was right, retention of selection was discussed 10 months ago. The embarrassing thing (to me that is) is that I raised the point myself, but only had any recollection of the response, and that only vaguely! So, in the hope of jogging someone's memory, here's a lightly edited version of what was said all those moons ago. A new release went live this afternoon with the following changes: - Lists of loans can now be sorted on column headings
- New "quick search" feature at the top of loan lists to find loans fast.
- New tab and pagination styles throughout.
- Use actual accepted bid amount rather than initial bid amount when calculating "Your Total Investment" on dashboard.
- Changes to Green Account layout on dashboard and new button linking to Green Account details.
- Fix for mobile issues with menu on brochure website.
- Fix to date picker calendar layout on statements.
Was the irritating loss of 'no-limit' on page display intentional? And why is user choice no longer remembered, always reverting to 50?  I'd totally forgotten about the loss of the 'no-limit' option! We plan to add the no limit option back into the per page choice, but for now there will be a maximum of 76 entries so the 100 per page option will have the same affect. We are investigating ways to remember sort, search, page and per page choices when clicking back from loans or when you first visit the list. This will be forthcoming but we didn't want it to delay the release of column sorting which has been much requested. Some of the 'page choice' issues have been successfully addressed, but I wonder whether the others are still on the 'to do' list?
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Post by SteveT on Sept 21, 2015 18:10:30 GMT
Given the promised spate of new loan drawdowns in the coming days, we'll soon be well beyond 100 loans and in need of the "No Limit" option!  |
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Post by mikes1531 on Sept 21, 2015 19:05:36 GMT
Given the promised spate of new loan drawdowns in the coming days, we'll soon be well beyond 100 loans and in need of the "No Limit" option! Maybe AC will solve that 'problem' by settling up some of the distressed loans? We should be so lucky! 
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Post by rainbow on Sept 23, 2015 10:18:25 GMT
I have found the "Last Update" feature very useful. I asked a question on Loan 164 on 17/9/15, a somewhat disappointing reply by AC appeared on 22/9/15, but the "Last Update" for the loan has remained 9th July 2015.
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Post by ianj on Sept 30, 2015 12:55:14 GMT
During last Friday, yesterday and this morning I've experienced a noticeable increase in purchasing activity, most probably associated with the loan drawdown postponed until today. As a consequence, I have spent more time than desired attempting to maintain funds, sufficient for the pending loan, in my MLIA. Transferring cash, pausing investments, selling unwanted purchases (unwanted at this time), then recording which loans will require unpausing or have investment instructions reset . It all takes time, This issue was much discussed following introduction of the MLIA, but never resolved as far as I'm concerned. So chris, is this an appropriate time to resurrect the question of a 'global pause switch' for investment activity ..... ......or a 'priority investment flag' for loans drawing down..... ......or any other mechanism for making the situation more manageable when the promised tsunami of loans hits our shores! |
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Post by chris on Sept 30, 2015 16:49:59 GMT
During last Friday, yesterday and this morning I've experienced a noticeable increase in purchasing activity, most probably associated with the loan drawdown postponed until today. As a consequence, I have spent more time than desired attempting to maintain funds, sufficient for the pending loan, in my MLIA. Transferring cash, pausing investments, selling unwanted purchases (unwanted at this time), then recording which loans will require unpausing or have investment instructions reset . It all takes time, This issue was much discussed following introduction of the MLIA, but never resolved as far as I'm concerned. So chris, is this an appropriate time to resurrect the question of a 'global pause switch' for investment activity ..... ......or a 'priority investment flag' for loans drawing down..... ......or any other mechanism for making the situation more manageable when the promised tsunami of loans hits our shores! Happy to accept ideas on this. Would a simple tick box on a buy order flagging it as a 'priority investment' be enough? With that solution the system would total up all unfulfilled priority investments across all loans and make sure that non-priority buy orders only access funds in excess of that amount.
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Post by sl75 on Sept 30, 2015 17:09:14 GMT
Happy to accept ideas on this. Would a simple tick box on a buy order flagging it as a 'priority investment' be enough? With that solution the system would total up all unfulfilled priority investments across all loans and make sure that non-priority buy orders only access funds in excess of that amount. A cap to that total would probably also be useful - if there are (say) £1000 total of unfulfilled priority investments, but I judge it highly unlikely that more than a few dozen pounds will be invested at any one moment, I might want to reserve only a maximum of (say) £100 for the "priority" investments, allowing funds in excess of that (if any) to be allocated to non-priority investments. (adjust magnitude of example amounts depending on portfolio size!).
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Post by chris on Sept 30, 2015 17:12:08 GMT
Happy to accept ideas on this. Would a simple tick box on a buy order flagging it as a 'priority investment' be enough? With that solution the system would total up all unfulfilled priority investments across all loans and make sure that non-priority buy orders only access funds in excess of that amount. A cap to that total would probably also be useful - if there are (say) £1000 total of unfulfilled priority investments, but I judge it highly unlikely that more than a few dozen pounds will be invested at any one moment, I might want to reserve only a maximum of (say) £100 for the "priority" investments, allowing funds in excess of that (if any) to be allocated to non-priority investments. (adjust magnitude of example amounts depending on portfolio size!). Happy to include, but where would that sit in the user interface to prevent confusion? Perhaps in the MLIA box on the dashboard as an option if you have any priority instructions?
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Post by ianj on Sept 30, 2015 18:26:52 GMT
I believe the ability to mark loans as 'priority investments' is vastly preferable to what is currently available and would be happy to go with this for now, but..... .....with 38 of the 78 loans I'm already invested in/trying to invest in/awaiting drawdown having (or did have until earlier today) investment orders set..... .....and with the number of loans available hopefully growing and the effort involved to manage them potentially increasing..... .....my personal view is that a global disable/enable switch for both investment and sell orders (with the ability to enable individual loans) would be the most effective and efficient way from a lenders perspective. This would cater for any circumstance I can currently envisage with speed and least user effort. P.S. naturally I have no concept of the coding effort required to achieve this, nor can I be aware of any impact on unknown system enhancements in the pipeline.  |
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Post by bigfoot12 on Sept 30, 2015 18:37:28 GMT
I believe the ability to mark loans as 'priority investments' is vastly preferable to what is currently available and would be happy to go with this for now, but..... .....with 38 of the 78 loans I'm already invested in/trying to invest in/awaiting drawdown having (or did have until earlier today) investment orders set..... .....and with the number of loans available hopefully growing and the effort involved to manage them potentially increasing..... .....my personal view is that a global disable/enable switch for both investment and sell orders (with the ability to enable individual loans) would be the most effective and efficient way from a lenders perspective. This would cater for any circumstance I can currently envisage with speed and least user effort. P.S. naturally I have no concept of the coding effort required to achieve this, nor can I be aware of any impact on unknown system enhancements in the pipeline. So two global disable switches, which you can then override at the loan level, so a local loan override the global override switch... This sounds like a lot of complexity and not necessarily widely wanted. I think we should all push for the API and then you can have scripts that do this sort of thing for you. A script to record all current orders then cancel them should be easy, as should reinstate all orders that don't have an order (from the recorded list).
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Post by ianb on Sept 30, 2015 18:49:01 GMT
Would the proposed Global work only for existing loans which have drawn so I can divert whatever funds I have to new loans which are just drawing down ? I guess that's the intent but don't know if it could cause problems like if underwriters don't release it all in one go - if it can work great. The loan level one would be useful for me, like when the 3 welsh ones drawdown I can have one flagged as a priority to make sure it gets first call on the funds.
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