Full-Time
Updated on 3/7/2025
Peer-to-peer lending and financial services
No salary listed
Mid, Senior
London, UK
This hybrid role requires you to come to our London office 2-3 days a week.
Zopa operates in the peer-to-peer lending market, offering personal loans, savings accounts, credit cards, and car finance. By connecting individual lenders directly with borrowers through its online platform, Zopa allows users to bypass traditional banks, which helps in providing better value loans and investment opportunities. The platform uses technology to streamline the lending process, including a quick pre-approval system that can provide loan decisions in as little as 12 seconds without affecting credit ratings. Zopa differentiates itself from competitors by being the first to introduce P2P lending and by adhering to strict regulatory standards, ensuring the security of its financial operations. The company's goal is to make borrowing and saving more accessible and affordable for individuals in the UK.
Company Size
501-1,000
Company Stage
Late Stage VC
Total Funding
$931M
Headquarters
London, United Kingdom
Founded
2005
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Digital bank Zopa has appointed Jeremy Penzer as its Chief Analytics Officer.He joins Zopa from Visa, the digital payments network, where he was Head of Data Science for Europe. Prior to that he served as Capital One Europe’s Chief Analytics Officer and as an academic statistician at the London School of Economics.Jeremy will oversee a team of 80 data scientists, credit decisioning, and valuation experts as the bank enters a phase of accelerated growth and prepares to release a raft of new products and services.Zopa uses algorithms built using machine learning to make lending decisions almost instantaneously; 99% of approved loans take less than 5 seconds for credit approval.In recent months Zopa has been testing its flagship current account in beta and a GenAI proposition that will bring humanity and warmth bank into everyday banking.The appointment comes off the back of an exceptionally strong year for Zopa, followed by a €80 million equity raise led by A.P. Moller Holding – owners of the Maersk shipping and logistics giant and investors in Danske Bank.Jeremy Penzer, CAO at Zopa Bank said: “I am thrilled to be joining Zopa as it continues its remarkable trajectory as one of the fastest-growing digital banks in the UK. Zopa is the only UK neobank successfully lending at scale, meeting all consumer lending and saving needs in one place. I am looking forward to taking Zopa’s data and analytics capabilities to the next level as its steps into everyday banking and enters its next phase of growth”.In just over 4 years Zopa has secured its banking license, grown to over 1.4 million customers, and achieved profitability. It has launched unsecured personal loans, BNPL retail finance and POS, car finance, credit cards, savings accounts, and tools for improved financial management and health.To date Zopa has attracted £5.5 billion in deposits and has just over £3 billion of loans on its balance sheet
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