Tech How two-factor authentication keeps you safer online You have a password on our online accounts for the same reason you have a lock on your front door – so that only people with the right key can enter. But this first line of defence sometimes isn’t enough to keep hackers… Posted on 20 October 2020 by Zopian blogger Read more
FeelGood Money Tech Zopa news The tech behind Borrowing Power Using a unique combination of AI and data science to create our latest tool Today, we launched Borrowing Power, a new tool that combines AI, data science, and innovative technology… Posted on 16 October 2019 by Tamsin O'Neill Read more
Future of finance Inside Zopa Our products Tech Your money Zopa explains Open Banking a year (or so) on There’s a problem in Britain’s banking market. Fintech businesses and the new ‘challenger banks’ hold many of the ideas, but the long-established major banks hold the power. Because of this,… Posted on 07 March 2019 by Zopian blogger Read more
Tech Zopian life Monitoring tools: One tool to rule them all Shared dashboards. It’s a nice dream. But in reality, everyone trying to work off one dashboard can turn into an inefficient nightmare. Trying to decide what monitoring tools should be… Posted on 04 June 2018 by Arthur Kirby Read more
Tech Optimisation algorithms at Zopa, Part II: speeding up Python with Numba In the previous post, we discussed how to optimise an algorithm prototype in Pandas by using optimal methods or shipping computation to Numpy. In the second part, we will focus… Posted on 27 March 2018 by ben.read@zopa.com Read more
Tech Optimisation algorithms at Zopa Data science opportunities at Zopa are diverse and varied. While we have talked at length in the past about our machine learning algorithms and our main tools, another important class… Posted on 27 March 2018 by ben.read@zopa.com Read more
Tech Zopian life Three things I wish I knew earlier about Machine Learning (Reposted from www.peadarcoyle.com) I’ve been working with Machine Learning models both in academic and industrial settings for a few years now, and I recently watched the excellent Scalable ML from… Posted on 09 March 2018 by Tamsin O'Neill Read more
Inside Zopa Tech Zopian life Women in Tech at Zopa Last week, we hosted our first Women in Tech event at Zopa. People from all over the industry joined us for an evening of eating mince pies, networking and listening… Posted on 22 December 2017 by Tamsin O'Neill Read more
Future of finance Tech Open Source at Zopa Recently we were contacted by the Python Sprints Meetup - a group that wants to encourage people to contribute to Open Source via workshops and sprints. One of our data… Posted on 13 December 2017 by Tamsin O'Neill Read more
Investments Tech Progress on improving loan sale times (and an update on the rebate period) Recently, some of our processes have been running slower than normal, resulting in it taking longer for you to sell loans and access your money early. We’re working hard to… Posted on 01 September 2017 by ben.read@zopa.com Read more
Tech Tips for honing your logistic regression models When we create our Credit Risk assessment or Fraud prevention machine learning models at Zopa, we use a variety of algorithms. These include classification and regression trees, more complex algorithms… Posted on 20 July 2017 by Tamsin O'Neill Read more
Tech Building better platforms with Kubernetes Zopa is both a ‘finance’ and a ‘technology’ company. It is our passion for technology that enables us to deliver better and more innovative financial services and products. Our… Posted on 16 June 2017 by Tamsin O'Neill Read more
Tech Health-monitoring in production (beyond logs) Here at Zopa, we are about halfway through our journey of breaking up our venerable monolith into various microservices. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that whilst a microservice architecture… Posted on 13 April 2017 by Tamsin O'Neill Read more
Tech Zopa at The Hacker Games Did you know that of the people who are only able to move their eyes, 50% are not able to blink voluntarily? How can those people use Google Maps to… Posted on 24 March 2017 by Tom Groombridge Read more
Inside Zopa Tech Zopian life Zopa hosts Women Who Code event One of the best ways to realise what you don’t know about code is to try to teach it to someone else. Why can’t you wrap the entire body element… Posted on 23 February 2017 by Zopian blogger Read more
