If you’ve ever loaned on Kiva before you’ll notice that there isn’t too much criteria available to sort and filter the loans. Chances are it’s not a big deal to you if you don’t loan much or particularly have a need for more advanced filtering. However if you do there’s some good news, there’s third party filtering located at kivabank.org. It’s free but requires the Microsoft Silverlight plug-in.
Ever since Kiva added the sharing of currency exchange losses to lenders I’ve been really adverse towards loaning to field partners who don’t cover this risk. I feel that providing interest free funds and sharing in the risk of default or fraud (which is where the majority of my defaults have come from) is more than adequate. The KivaBank tool allows me to filter and select loans based on more advanced criteria. As a third party, the website only helps you filter loans, the funding and transactions are still done at Kiva.
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