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Timizzer.com - Ademar Schardong is the CEO of Sicredi. The credit union system was regarded as the one of the best authors of economic projections in Brazil. In an exclusive interview to Timizzer, Schardong says that the South American country will be able to maintain the growth of its agriculture, despite a slow down in China. Schardong also defends the role of credit unions and "cooperative banks" as economic models for the society. He revealed details and explained the Sicredi Bank purchase made by Rabobank. According to him, the Dutch bank shares similar long-term interests with Sicredi... Continue: Timizzer.com

Timizzer.com - More than a hundred years before it got international recognition through a partnership with Rabobank, the credit union which became Sicredi was starting by the hands of Theodor Amstad in 1902 in Nova Petropolis, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The founder was a Swiss Jesuit who came from England in 1883 and was trying to spread a cooperative throughout German colonies in Brazil. Continue: Timizzer.com