José A. Quiñonez

{{short description|American businessman}}

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| nationality = American

| education = University of California, Davis (B.A., 1994)

| alma_mater = Princeton University (M.A., 1998)

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| known_for = Mission Asset Fund

| notable_works = Winning MacArthur Fellows Program

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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.{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/this-innovative-idea-can-unshackle-poor-people-from-payday-loans-and-bad-credit-scores/|title=This innovative idea can 'unshackle' poor people from payday loans and bad credit scores|last=Doerer|first=Kristen|date=16 September 2016|publisher=PBS|accessdate=23 June 2017}}{{cite web |title=José A. Quiñonez |url=https://www.macfound.org/fellows/966/ |website=MacArthur Foundation |accessdate=17 February 2019}}