Back بنك ويستمنستر الوطني Arabic ন্যাটওয়েস্ট ব্যাংক Bengali/Bangla National Westminster Bank Catalan National Westminster Bank German NatWest Spanish NatWest ET ناتوست FA National Westminster Bank Finnish NatWest French NatWest Italian
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 NatWest's headquarters at 250 Bishopsgate in the City of London | |
| NatWest | |
| Formerly | National Westminster Bank Limited (1968–1981) |
| Company type | Private |
| Industry | Financial services |
| Predecessor | National Provincial Bank Westminster Bank District Bank |
| Founded | 18 March 1968 |
| Headquarters | London, England, UK |
Key people | Chairman: Richard Haythornthwaite Chief Executive: Paul Thwaite |
| Products | Banking, Investments, Lending and Insurance |
| Parent | NatWest Holdings |
| Subsidiaries | Coutts |
| Website | natwest |
National Westminster Bank Plc,[1] trading as NatWest,[2] is a major retail and commercial bank in the United Kingdom based in London, England. It was established in 1968 by the merger of National Provincial Bank and Westminster Bank. In 2000, it became part of The Royal Bank of Scotland Group, which was re-named NatWest Group in 2020. Following ringfencing of the group's core domestic business, the bank became a direct subsidiary of NatWest Holdings; NatWest Markets comprises the non-ringfenced investment banking arm. As of November 2024, the British government owns 10.9% of NatWest Group after spending £45 billion ($61.87 billion) bailing out the lender in 2008; the proportion at one point was 54.7%.[3][4] NatWest International is a trading name of RBS International, which also sits outside the ringfence.
NatWest is considered one of the Big Four clearing banks in the UK,[5][6] and it has a large network of over 526 branches[7] and 3,400 cash machines across Great Britain and offers 24-hour Actionline telephone and online banking services. Today, it has more than 7.5 million personal customers and 850,000 small business accounts. In Northern Ireland, it operates through the Ulster Bank brand.
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- ^ Strydom, Martin (11 November 2024). "NatWest buys back £1bn of shares from Treasury". The Times. Retrieved 11 November 2024.
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- ^ Kar-Gupta, Sudip (10 April 2011). "UK to prioritise taxpayers as bank shake-up looms". Reuters. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 14 April 2014.
- ^ "RBS and NatWest to shed 158 branches and more than 400 jobs". BBC News. 23 March 2017. Archived from the original on 24 March 2017. Retrieved 23 March 2017.