ATHENS - National Bank (NBG), Greece's second-largest lender by market value, on Friday issued 200 million pounds ($241.6 million) of notes which will mature in 4-1/2 years.
It is the first sterling-denominated offer from a Greece-based issuer since 2009, with 70% of the senior preferred notes taken up by foreign investors, National Bank said in a statement.
The final cost for the issue came at 6.97%.
Goldman Sachs acted as joint bookrunner for the transaction.
($1 = 0.8278 pounds)
(Reporting by Angeliki Koutantou; Editing by Kirsten Donovan)