Tokyo, June 1, 2005 - Loan Pricing Corporation (LPC), a Reuters Company, the leading provider of loan market information globally, announced today the opening of its Japan office.

Yukio Goto will head the Tokyo office and will report to Adam Graham, Director, Asia Pacific. In this role, Yukio is responsible for rolling out the full suite of LPC products to the Japanese Market. These products include its flagship desktop information tool, LoanConnector, its Asia Pacific debt markets publication basis point and its global mark-to-market loan pricing service and intelligence tools.

Prior to joining LPC, Goto-san spent 10 years working with Reuters in various sales and business development roles. He has a good understanding of the global credit markets combined with a deep knowledge of the Japanese financial markets.

Goto-san comments "We are now seeing a change in the way loans are extended to Japanese borrowers and there is a real need for more transparency and disclosure in the market. We are also seeing Japanese investors now investing in the loan asset class through loan funds, collateralised debt obligations and mutual funds and with this comes a need for independent third party pricing and analysis"

Adam Graham adds "Over the last few years we have seen a huge increase in syndicated lending volumes in Japan which is now fuelling the introduction of secondary trading capabilities. As the leading provider of loan market information and pricing, LPC will bring its experience and capabilities to this rapidly growing market".

About Loan Pricing Corporation
Since 1985, Loan Pricing Corporation (LPC)'s DealScan database has captured detailed terms and conditions on over 147,000 loan and high yield bond transactions. It delivers its products, which include real-time news, data and analytics via LoanConnector, an Internet-based product distribution platform. Gold Sheets, LPC's flagship print publication, is the industry's leading weekly publication of loan news, data and analysis.

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