The Scottish bank is highly regarded for its skills and efficiency in personal and business banking.

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To expand that market, the company on Monday said it had struck a deal with Admirals Bank of Boston to provide loans to SolarCity customers to finance energy efficiency improvements.

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The bank said it was undertaking a major productivity programme in order to improve its efficiency and customer service.

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Such efficiency can only be realized if planners can receive -- and bank on -- a reliable projection of the Defense Department's future spending stream.

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But MBf Finance apparently does not fulfill some of the other conditions of the central bank's CAMEL formula -- capital adequacy, asset quality, management efficiency, earnings performance and liquidity position.

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He said the Green Investment Bank had been "hobbled" by its inability to borrow and called for energy efficiency to be given "equal value" to energy supply in policy-making.

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" Economies of Scale and Efficiency in European Banking", by Paul Schure and Rien Wagenvoort, European Investment Bank, 1999.

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Other questions focused on Sir Philip Green's review of government efficiency, the abolition of the Health Protection Agency, and the settlement freeze in the West Bank.

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But at the urging of the World Bank and other aid donors, Ghana's government has carried out major reforms in the cocoa sector, improving efficiency and channeling more money to farmers.

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