De Nationale Investeringsbank NV ofthe Netherlands has signed a 3.1 billion yen bullet loan
agreement, arranger Mitsubishi Bank (Europe) SA said.
    The five-year term loan carries an interest rate of
Japanese long term prime rate flat. It features a swap
agreement but a Mitsubishi Bank spokesman declined to give
further details.
    The lenders are Mitsubishi Bank Ltd and one other Japanese
financial institution which the spokesman declined to name.
    Mitsubishi said the loan was believed to be the first the
borrower has raised in yen.
 Reuter
