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Category: Kiva

Kiva Runs Into Some Problems

This came up a couple of weeks ago.  As you may know, we’ve been supporters of Kiva since last year when we made a loan.  In early June, we got an email notifying us that the loan was officially in default.  This means that we were definitely not going to see the unpaid balance of [...]


Kiva Is Way Too Popular

In a New York Times Magazine article for this weekend, there’s a story about Kiva, a micro-lending brokerage that I’ve been advertising on this site for quite a while. It’s a good news kind of story, and one I had not expected to hear.
Recently, every borrower business in Kiva’s system was 100% funded. [...]