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Re:Kiva is matching loans for first time donors by clloyd on Wednesday October 12, 2011 @01:42AM (#3101649)
If they have faith in the system, then surely this should cost them next to nothing as everything should be repaid? (Although I'm naive on the accounting of things like this.)

Great idea though, never lost a $1 through kiva lending.

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Re:Kiva is matching loans for first time donors by knight99 on Wednesday October 12, 2011 @02:02AM (#3101687)
Looks like kiva has 98.87% repayment rate, so a small price to pay to attract new users.

http://www.kiva.org/about/risk/overview

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Re:Kiva is matching loans for first time donors by sgk284 on Wednesday October 12, 2011 @02:58AM (#3101804)
Yep, same here. I've done several loans and always have gotten repaid. Great service.
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