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NatWest Group

  • Wednesday, 4 June, 2025
    FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen
    Mexico’s new supreme court

    Mexico’s new top judges are solely nominated by the ruling coalition

  • Sunday, 1 June, 2025
    The RBS story: how the world’s biggest bank was nationalised and then reborn

    After 17 years, the government has returned a very different bank to private ownership. This is how it happened

    A man walks past a Royal Bank of Scotland branch in London
  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    Britain’s bank bailouts: an epic saga without a happy ending

    NatWest is no longer a ward of the state, but the UK’s GFC-era moral crusade has had enduring effects

  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    NatWest returns to full private ownership 17 years after £46bn UK bailout

    Government sells final shares after rescue at height of financial crisis

    A sign outside the entrance to a NatWest  bank branch in London
  • Monday, 26 May, 2025
    Lex
    NatWest’s freedom dividend has already been cashed Premium content

    Bank’s imminent return to private ownership is just another day in the office for staff

    NatWest logo in the window of a branch in Maidstone, England
  • Friday, 9 May, 2025
    Banco Santander SA
    Santander rejected £11bn bid from NatWest for UK unit

    Spanish bank has since raised €7bn from sale of Polish stake as it pivots from Europe to Americas

    Ana Botin, Santander’s executive chair, speaking at a podium in front of the bank’s logo
  • Friday, 2 May, 2025
    NatWest profits surge as bank nears full private ownership

    High-street lender posts jump in earnings despite higher provisions linked to trade turmoil

    A sign inside the window of a NatWest bank branch
  • Wednesday, 26 March, 2025
    NatWest and Farage settle ‘debanking’ dispute

    Agreement brings to an end the politician’s threat of legal action against the lender

    Nigel Farage
  • Friday, 14 February, 2025
    LexUK banks
    Bank results poke a hole through UK economic clouds Premium content

    Barclays and NatWest’s numbers suggest there are reasons to be optimistic

    People walk past a NatWest branch in central London
  • Friday, 14 February, 2025
    NatWest profits rise as it nears full private ownership

    UK lender reports ‘reasons for optimism’ as Treasury cuts stake again

    A pedestrian walks past a cash machine at a NatWest branch in central London
  • Thursday, 13 February, 2025
    Banco Santander SA
    Santander explored sale of UK business with NatWest

    Talks last year came as the British high street lender takes a robust approach to growth ahead of government exit

    A red bus drives past a Banco Santander bank branch in central London
  • Friday, 13 December, 2024
    UK government’s NatWest stake falls below 10%

    State has been selling shares in bank since 2015

    A NatWest branch in London
  • Tuesday, 3 December, 2024
    NatWest likely to return to full private ownership next year, says chief

    Government stake in UK bank has fallen to below 11%

    Paul Thwaite speaking
  • Friday, 25 October, 2024
    NatWest profits rise by a quarter as lending and deposits grow

    Bank also sets aside £245mn in provisions for bad loans, higher than expectations of £173mn

    The NatWest logo is prominently displayed inside a bank branch in London. Reflections of pedestrians can be seen on the glass, with a man in a suit using his phone near the entrance.
  • Monday, 16 September, 2024
    Mishcon de Reya
    Alison Rose joins Mishcon de Reya to advise on diversity and inclusion

    Law firm represented former NatWest boss in pay dispute with bank after her exit in midst of Farage ‘debanking’ scandal

    Alison Rose
  • Sunday, 15 September, 2024
    European banks
    European governments offload €16bn of bailed-out bank stocks

    Sales include stakes in Commerzbank, NatWest, ABN Amro and Monte dei Paschi di Siena

    A NatWest branch in Chelmsford
  • Friday, 6 September, 2024
    NatWest chair played down ties to oil company caught up in 1MDB fraud

    Swiss PetroSaudi case has raised questions about bank’s process in appointing Rick Haythornthwaite

    NatWest chair Rick Haythornthwaite
  • Monday, 26 August, 2024
    News in-depth
    NatWest’s change of guard: a new era or more of the same?

    CEO Paul Thwaite and chair Rick Haythornthwaite take up the helm following Farage scandal

    Paul Thwaite (left) and Rick Haythornthwaite
  • Monday, 29 July, 2024
    NatWest sues ex-GM unit for €155mn over financial crisis-era deals

    UK bank brings case over securitisation of loans that US group sold in mortgage push

    A NatWest logo seen through trees
  • Friday, 26 July, 2024
    NatWest shares jump as lender lifts forecasts

    UK bank expects return on tangible equity to be above 14%

    NatWest logo on a bank branch
  • Sunday, 30 June, 2024
    News in-depthFintech
    Financial services shun AI over job and regulatory fears

    Industry leaders say concerns over impact of technology are outweighing benefits such as productivity gains and cost cuts

    Canary Wharf and AI montage
  • Thursday, 20 June, 2024
    NatWest to buy most of Sainsbury’s Bank

    Deal by state-backed lender’s new chief is latest sign of supermarket sector’s retreat from financial services

    People walk past a Natwest Bank branch in central London
  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    NatWest to close Polish operations

    Majority of staff in the country are employed in the UK bank’s financial crime unit

    The bank’s logo and name are seen on top of a roof
  • Tuesday, 11 June, 2024
    Ex-NatWest boss Rose joins UK buyout firm Charterhouse

    One of UK’s highest-profile female business leaders has started at private equity group as senior adviser

    Alison Rose
  • Friday, 31 May, 2024
    LexUK banks
    Market embrace of banking stocks is helping the UK exit NatWest Premium content

    The next government will want to say goodbye to the last vestiges of state intervention made during the financial crisis

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