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When business partners face ethical dilemmas about microfinance clients

My business partner and I run a company that provides technology for microfinance institutions and we just learned that one of our biggest clients has been charging predatory interest rates to borrowers. We're split on whether to drop them immediately or try to influence them to change, and our own employees are asking what we're going to do.

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