NATWEST, RABO UNIT REPORTS 8.8 PCT PROFIT GROWTH

  Dutch bank F. Van
  Lanschot Bankiers N.V., Co-owned by National Westminster PLC
  &lt;NWBL.L> and RABOBANK B.A. &lt;RABN.A> , said 1986 net profit rose
  8.8 pct to 24.1 mln guilders on a 4.8-pct higher balance sheet
  total of 6.2 billion.
      Van Lanschot Bankiers is a subsidiary of Van Lanschot
  Beleggingscompagnie B.V. In which Britain's National
  Westminster Bank PLC and Dutch cooperative bank RABOBANK
  Nederland B.A. Each have a 40-pct stake. Commercial Union's
  Dutch insurance unit &lt;Delta Lloyd Verzekeringsgroep N.V.> has a
  5.4-pct stake in Van Lanschot, which lowered risk provisions to
  22.5 mln guilders.
  

