The thoroughness of your first two posts to this new (to you) community leaves a lot to be desired. I fail to follow the logic of your comment above at all. Why would MBK sever their relationship with Kiva temporarily if they wanted to manipulate Kiva and its lenders to continue funding (their projects??) their loans? I'd go as far as to say that whatever happened here on KF had about 1% to do with MBK leaving and what's on the MFI page on Kiva is about 99% of why they left. To me, it seems very straightforward. There's not much conspiracy theory material here.
Interesting name by the way, perhaps you can back up a bit and start by introducing yourself to the community here in the Introductions thread and maybe tell us what it is about Kiva that you do like that made you start lending.
-Scott
First, I've been reading this board for a while, I just never posted before.
If you read the note from a Kiva employee on the matter, they mentioned that because Kiva lenders wanted to go into Africa (and I can hardly blame them, Africa is a region that should be targeted), they didn't conduct the due diligence that they normally do. Reading between the lines, it sounds like something fishy was going on. Kiva has learned from their mistake, so I don't think this will be a problem again.
MBK would sever their relationship if it meant that Kiva wouldn't be able to pursue conducting some due diligence. It's certainly going to be harder for Kiva if MBK isn't working with them anymore. (It also makes MBK look sympathetic in the eyes of the lenders. That seems to be working.)
I don't think it's a conspiracy, and I'm not sure why you think I am implying that.
