Can this tiny startup be the definitive lender for the world’s emerging middle class?

By Jessi Hempel, writer

Forget microfinance. The startup Lenddo is using social data to determine credit scores for a new group of lendees.

FORTUNE — A big challenge for people in an emerging middle class who are struggling to find avenues to credit is that they rarely have formal credit histories.

They do, however, have social …read more