Sentence examples for efg from inspiring English sources

In December Burgan Bank of Kuwait bought Eurobank Tekfen from its troubled Greek owner, Eurobank EFG.

But Randolph needed a full 18 shots just to get to 15 – a glaring counterpoint to a postseason in which he has registered an effective field goal percentage (eFG percentage) of 48 percent, well above his career average.

Reforming the bureaucracy is "easier said than done", says Karim Awad of EFG Hermes, an investment bank.More uncertainty surrounds taxes.

"There is a clear case for building residential and office space in that corridor," says Simon Kitchen of EFG Hermes, an investment bank.But the $45 billion project is also full of extravagant ideas, like a green space twice the size of Central Park in New York and an amusement park four times the size of Disneyland.

The Enterprise-Finance Guarantee (EFG) scheme, in which the government guarantees 75% of a bank loan to businesses with up to £25m in turnover, was launched on January 14th.

Having promised much larger sums, they ran around for months "like headless chickens" before turning him down.The Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) trumpets Mr Ben's case on its website as an example of the EFG at work.

In March, for instance, the Corner House, a British anti-corruption organisation, dug up evidence of the involvement of the former Egyptian leader's son, Gamal Mubarak, in a private-equity affiliate of EFG-Hermes.

Already the biggest brokerage house in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, as well as on Cairo's stock exchange, it recently expanded operations to Syria and pocketed a cool $260m profit from a $913m sale of its stake in Bank Audi, a Lebanese bank.Less risk-averse, Ahmed Heikal left EFG-Hermes to form a private-equity firm, Citadel Capital.

EFG-Hermes reckons that the forward P/E ratios are a rather more enticing 14.1 based on projected 2008 earnings and 13.0 based on forecast 2009 earnings.

But EFG-Hermes forecasts that Dubai's population will fall by 17% this year.

EFG-Hermes indicated that swap agreements must be fully financed and covered at the time of purchase, and are valid for a maximum four years.