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MicroPlace aims to relieve global poverty

Flag As Inappropriate submitted by jarkko (verified representative for dotherightthing.com) 11 months ago about eBay Inc.

MicroPlace, an eBay subsidiary, is a new online brokerage for so-called microinvestments, small loans given to third-world entrepreneurs. It’s kind of what Kiva.org is, except that it is a SEC-approved brokerage, giving it the possibility to actually pay interest to the investors (and securitize and thus trade loans). The founder of MicroPlace, Tracey Pettengill Turner, has a long history working for pioneering financial institutions such as the Nobel Prize winning Grameen Bank.

I find this a great step in making mikrofinance more mainstream and accessible to the normal people. Wish them all the luck.

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submitted by LaurenS 9 months ago

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~Lauren

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