VOL. XXXVII

NO. 48

29-AUGUST-1994

Financial and Banking News

Regional

Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund Repays Loan On Due Date

Saudi Arabia's state-owned Public Investment Fund (PIF) repaid a $660mnfive-year loan on time at the beginning of August. Eight Saudi banks and threeregional institutions extended the loan, which had bullet repayment. It waspriced at 1/8% over Libor. When signed on 3 July 1988 the loan was the firstborrowing by a Saudi public entity in recent times. The Saudi banks...