Useful Resources (Z)

Link to the "Old MLB": goo.gl/dM50SO (Zopa seem to have closed this down some time after 30.9.16)

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.

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.

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.