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Food security: Agriculture groups shore up financing for seed banks to help farmers adapt to climate change
2013-02-07 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: The DNA of the world's food crops just got a little more secure. Two leading agricultural organizations, the Global Crop Diversity Trust and CGIAR (formerly known as the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research) Consortium, have agreed to invest $109 million over the next five years in the world's seed banks, which maintain 706,000 samples of seeds and vegetative material. Most of the funds will go into maintenance and regular operations in the seed banks at 11 CGIAR research...
Banks Can Withstand Swedish Housing Price Slump, Fitch Predicts
2013-02-06 09:09:23| Appliances - Topix.net
Sweden's largest banks can handle a projected slump in house prices as deep as 10 percent without suffering significant credit losses, Fitch Ratings said.
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UPDATE 1-S.Korea's KT hires banks for Maroc Telecom bid-sources
2013-02-04 21:28:05| Telecom - Topix.net
South Korean telecoms company KT Corp has lined up three banks to advise on its potential bid for Vivendi's 53 percent stake in Maroc Telecom, worth about 5.5 billion euros, two people familiar with the situation told Reuters.
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Europe's Banks Urged to Pursue More Capital-Heavy Unit Cuts
2013-02-04 13:13:50| Appliances - Topix.net
The president of the European Banking Federation is urging lenders in the region to reinvent themselves and discard the areas of their business that place too large a capital burden on their balance sheets.
Banks Told Too Much Capital a Bad Thing in Swedish Rethink
2013-02-01 15:25:29| Appliances - Topix.net
Sweden is telling its banks not to amass too much capital less than 18 months after breaking with the rest of Europe in demanding lenders meet some of the world's toughest regulatory standards.
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