checking out
Written on the original Movable Type site and recovered from the Internet Archive.
Thinking about microlending again. Just made a loan on Kiva to five women in pakistan starting an embroidery business. Very cool that Paypal gives transaction free funds processing. I don’t know the interest rate (probably zero) but will see how the repayment goes. Not as robust a user interface and portfolio management as the Prosper.com’s of the world, but it looks to get the job done. They could do with a little more focus on loans and less on marketing their idea of Kiva and how pious they are for doing good. Stay tuned here to see how it goes.