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API Spotlight

lenders/<id>/teams

Returns teams that a particular lender is a member of.

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teams/<ids>

Get detailed information about a lending team or a list of teams.

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loans/newest

This method returns all of the loans raising funds right now at Kiva, newest first.

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Build 873fa4c531784435638fb9f37adac2853759c82d was released 14 hours, 53 minutes ago.

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