All news on the topic: NatWest

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Major outage leaves thousands of customers unable to access banking app
Thousands of NatWest customers have been unable to log into their banking apps this morning after a major outage hit the service.
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Barclays, NatWest and Lloyds customers issued warning in 388 towns
Labour has warned that many communities have been turned into ’banking deserts’ as branches disappear from high streets without there being any alternatives nearby
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Martin Lewis urges everyone born in certain years to put £1 in bank account
Martin Lewis has issued a warning to anyone born in certain years to put £1 in a bank account as soon as possible - and it's all to do with buying a house and getting on the property ladder
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World leaders vow to fight fraud as Home Secretary hails 'massive step forward'
Last year, fraud made up 38% of recorded crime in the UK, affecting three million victims and costing them £2.5 billion
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NatWest to offer safe spaces in over 360 bank branches to help people in abuse
The safe spaces will be available in NatWest branches, as well as those belonging to Royal Bank of Scotland and Ulster Bank, which are part of the same group
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Q&A on Nationwide's £2.9bn Virgin Money deal: What it means for 24m customers
The move took the City by surprise and is set to catapult Nationwide into second place in the mortgage and savings market
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Brit left with smashed teeth stranded in Thailand after NatWest closed account
Yasin Belkadi, 23, had over £4,000 stolen from his NatWest bank account via Revolut following a violent mugging and was left stranded in Thailand for weeks with no money
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Debanking: More than 140,000 business accounts forcibly closed down in 2023
MPs on the Treasury Committee gathered the information as part of a probe into how many small to medium businesses face being debanked
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Full list of lenders who have hiked mortgage rates this week - including Natwest
The year began with the "mortgage price war" as lenders across the board cut their rates with anticipation that the Bank of England was to cut its base interest rate - however this came to a crashing halt with lenders, including Santander, TSB and RBS, now upping deals
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250 banks set to close this year including Barclays and HSBC - search your town
Twelve major bank branches closed in January alone and another 38 will have been shut down by the end of this month. They are among 245 banks set to close in 2024, with another six branches also due to shut but with no end date yet announced
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High street banks closing 49 branches in March - from Barclays to NatWest
There are already 249 high street bank closures scheduled to take place in 2024, including 49 happening next month by Barclays, Halifax, Lloyds, NatWest and Ulster Bank
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HSBC, NatWest and Virgin Money all hiking mortgage rates from today
Major bank and lender HSBC has today pulled its 3.99% five-year fixed rate remortgage deal, meaning the last sub-4% offering has now disappeared from the market
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Standard Chartered to hand back £3.95 billion to shareholders as profits rise
The Asia-focused bank launched a one billion US dollar (£800 million) share buyback and plans to return around five billion dollars (£3.95 billion) to shareholders over the next three years
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'The obscene profits made by the Big Four banks will stick in the craw'
The Big Four banks' profit gains were made off soaring interest rates, which have cost households hundreds more in mortgage and rental costs - corporations put profits ahead of people
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Lloyds, HSBC, Barclays and NatWest rake in £44bn as borrowers hit by rate hikes
Lloyds Banking Group was the last to report its annual results as it today revealed it made a record £7.5billion last year - a more than 50% leap on 2022
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Couple row over £1m 'joint' Lotto scratch card as he's told he won't get share
Charlotte Cox landed £1million from a scratch card she bought and scratched while with partner Michael Cartlidge in Spalding, Lincolnshire - but now he claims he has a stake after it was his idea and he tried to pay for it
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Barclays profits fall by 6% to £6.6bn as bank spends £1bn on restructuring
In the last quarter, its profit dropped by 92% from £1.3 billion the previous year to £110 million
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UK's five biggest banks are expected to reveal record £50 billion profits
The UK's biggest banks are set to report record-high profits after a year that saw lenders benefit from higher borrowing costs, as they face questions over the outlook for the year ahead
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NatWest appoints new chief executive as bank reveals highest profit since 2007
The bank reported a pre-tax profit of £6.2 billion for 2023, which is the highest since the £9.9 billion made just before the global financial crisis in 2007
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NatWest giving new and existing customers £200 - after similar move from Lloyds
To get the switch cash, you need to move your current account to either a Reward or Select account, then pay in £1,250 and log into the mobile app within 60 days
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NatWest investors await full-year results as bank looks to shrug off debanking
The group, which also owns Royal Bank of Scotland, Ulster Bank and Coutts, will unveil its fourth quarter earnings and full-year financial results on Friday
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NatWest appoints UBS executive to become head of Coutts after debanking scandal
Emma Crystal will become chief executive of NatWest's wealth business, including Coutts
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NatWest shares could be sold to the public as early as June, says Government
The UK Government wants to fully offload its stake in the bank
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Banks paid out more in dividends than any other sector in 2023
HSBC dominated UK dividend payments over 2023, global financial services firm Computershare found.
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Best and worst UK banks based on switching - from Barclays to HSBC and Santander
The number of current account customers ditching and switching their bank or building society reached a record high in the final quarter of 2023, according to the Current Account Switch Service (Cass)