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  • Kiva vs. MicroPlace – What’s the Difference?

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    World Changing: Kiva vs. MicroPlace – What's the Difference? As P2P Lending News explains, [t]he big difference between MicroPlace and Kiva…is that loans will be securitized (and therefore potentially trade-able), and lenders will earn interest. Unlike Kiva, lenders on MicroPlace invest in microfinance by purchasing securities. Funds generated by these sales are then invested in…

  • eBay Launches Microfinance Site: MicroPlace

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    Profy: eBay Launches Microfinance Site: MicroPlace There’s Kiva. There’s Accion International. There’s Opportunity International. And now there’s MicroPlace, an eBay company. What are they? Microfinance groups and organizations, spread across the globe, whose purpose it is to offer entrepreneurs and small businesses in places where poverty disables such people and their enterprises of the possibility…