Wonga’s flexible loans and sophisticated risk and decision technology had us in the spotlight once again. We were recently included in the Smarta 100, a list of the most exciting, promising and disruptive businesses in the UK as selected by a handful of top entrepreneurs.

Although the Wonga forum was not yet developed at the time of this award, there’s no doubt that Wonga Bill Pay and the Wonga iPhone app helped clinch this coveted spot. Not being one to rest on our laurels, we’ll continue to add innovative new product lines to the Wonga arsenal to keep our tech-savvy customers happy.

Our innovative approach to helping consumers manage their cash flow - with short term online loans available 24/7 - continues to be recognised by some of the UK’s most respected awards programmes.

It isn’t long since we were named Best Online Business of 2009 and now our technological innovation has been recognised again, this time by the nationwide Financial Innovation Awards. 

Wonga was selected as the Most Innovative Application of Technology for Customers at this week’s ceremony in London. We’re really honoured and will be adding the award to our growing Wonga wall of fame.

We’re also very proud to be finalists at the National Customer Service Awards this week, where we are in the running for Best Customer Service in Financial Services - having made it to the final from hundreds of entries. We’re keeping our fingers crossed but we are chuffed just to have made it this far.

2009 has been seen Wonga on a roll, winning award after award!

A few months back we were nominated in the Best Online Business category of the prestigious Startups Awards, which celebrate the UK’s most outstanding young businesses and the people running them.

Startups Awards 2009 is organised by Startups.co.uk – the UK’s largest website for people starting and running their own businesses.

The winner of each category was chosen by judges including Doug Richard, founder of School for Startups and Margaret Manning, CEO of Reading Room.

They said: “the successful businesses and the people behind them proved their brilliance after fighting off competition from hundreds of entries.”

Friday the 13th was a lucky date for us, as we walked out with the coveted prize! A massive thank you to our customers for choosing Wonga and helping us ge where we are today.

Everyone at Wonga is as pleased as punch to be in the running for Best Customer Service in the financial category of this year’s National Customer Service Awards. We’ve always done our best to treat our customers as VIPs, so making the short list is very gratifying for the team.

The lovely people organising this respected award scheme said: 

This year saw a staggering number of superheroes enter into the National Customer Service Awards, and after a rigorous entry and short listing process the finalists have now been announced.

Well done to our friendly customer care people. Oh how we’d love to add this massive gong to the Wonga wall of fame in December!

It’s a big claim to make, but Wonga was highly commended by the judges of the International Business Awards this week - in the category of Best New Service or Product in Financial Services. So we’re certainly one of them according to them!

It’s another award to add to our growing Wonga wall of fame, but we never rest on our laurels or get any less of a buzz from such recognition. It’s always lovely to get some a pat on the back from time to time.

If you have never tried our short term loan service before, give it a try next time you need some urgent funds and be your own judge of whether we’re the best in the world.

Wonga has been short listed in several categories of the Europa Awards being run by TechCrunch Europe, the leading startup and tech blog. The awards will honour the best tech companies and startups across the web and mobile scene from across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Wonga is up for Best Web Application or Service, Best Design, Best Startup Founder and Best New Startup. The awards are now open for public voting, so if you’re a fan of our cash advance service, feel free to make your voice heard!

Wonga has been enjoying a particularly rich run of awards over the past couple of weeks! At the top of the list has to be last night’s Credit Today Awards, where we picked up the gong for Credit Risk Team of the Year from Irish funnyman Dara O’Brien.

We were also very proud to be a finalist for Responsible Lender of the Year at the same event.

Prior to our glittering date at the Grosvernor, we attended two other prestigious events in the last fortnight. We spoke at a First Tuesday event, after Wonga was named as one of the three Most Promising Internet Companies in the UK. And we joined other business boomers at the Media Momentum Awards, where Wonga was hailed as ‘One to Watch’ in the annual celebration of fast growth businesses.

Still not impressed? We can see you’re a hard act to please. OK, let’s not forget the judges of the National Business Awards, who highly commended us in the Orange Best Use of Technology category last week. Thanks guys.

We’re not ones for lengthy award speeches, but the entire Wonga team would like to say a big thank you to all our customers for your loyal support!

Wonga’s boss is certainly in demand these days. Fresh from the European Business Awards, he was recently in front of the cameras at Smarta, the website for business owners and entrepreneurs looking for advice and inspiration. It’s great to see Errol alongside the likes of Martha Lane Fox of Lastminute fame and we’re in no doubt that his business achievements will soon be held in the same esteem. Grab a can of Tizer and some Butterkist and enjoy the show.

Wonga is having somewhat of a purple patch for awards this week! As previously reported, our CEO just received a Ruban d’Honneur in the RSM International Entrepreneur of the Year category of the European Business Awards.

And to prove it’s not all about personal glory here at Wonga, the company has been getting in on the act too. We’re excited to learn we are a finalist in two key categories of the 2009 Credit Today Awards - Responsible Lender of the Year and Credit Risk Team of the Year.

It’s very cool that our consumer-friendly approach to instant cash loans, plus the underlying technology we’ve developed, has been recognised. We’ll find out if we can give some of the big boys a bloody nose in May, so watch this space.

Last but definitely not least… Our Wonga website has won the IMA Outstanding Achievement Award in the financial services category. A panel of experienced judges rated every aspect of our web interface and we scored highly in all areas, with a total of 476 points out of a possible 500. We’re working on the 24 dropped points now! The IMAs recognise the highest standards of excellence in website design and development.

As previously reported, the innovation, drive and business success of our founder & CEO has been recognised by the European Business Awards. He was in Rome yesterday to receive a prestigious medal known as the Ruban d’Honneur (ribbon of honour) in the category of International Entrepreneur of the Year.

Adrian Tripp, Chief Executive of the European Business Awards congratulates: “I am very excited about the skills, energy and ingenuity that our Ruban d’Honneur recipients have on display. They are a great showcase of all that is good in European business.”

Naturally everyone at Wonga is as proud as punch and, if he’ll let us get our hands on the medal, we’ll add it to our Wonga awards cabinet.