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José A. Quiñonez

José A. Quiñonez

American businessman


José A. Quiñonez is an American financial-services innovator and winner of the MacArthur Fellows Program. He founded the San Francisco-based nonprofit Mission Asset Fund in 2007 in order to legitimize informal peer-to-peer lending networks in order to help marginalized groups build credit and serves as its CEO.[1][2]

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Education

In 1994, he received a B.A. from the University of California, Davis and an M.P.A. in 1998 from Princeton University.[2]


References

  1. Doerer, Kristen (16 September 2016). "This innovative idea can 'unshackle' poor people from payday loans and bad credit scores". PBS. Retrieved 23 June 2017.
  2. "José A. Quiñonez". MacArthur Foundation. Retrieved 17 February 2019.

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