NatWest Group

About NatWest Group
NatWest provides personal and business banking services, including mortgages, loans, and insurance, to retail customers and SMEs across the United Kingdom. The bank offers specialised support for female founders, agricultural businesses, and the life sciences sector through its accelerator and venture banking divisions. Recent coverage has focused on digital mortgage automation, international payment frameworks, and the integration of open banking technology for merchant services and fraud detection.
FF News has published 217 stories, 62 video interviews and 8 analysis pieces featuring NatWest Group since 2019, most recently "NatWest Slashes Marketing Compliance Times by 80% with Adclear AI Integration" (28 October 2026).
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NatWest Group group companies
- Evelyn Partners acquired July 2026
- Cushon acquired June 2023
- Mettle division
- NatWest Rooster Money acquired January 2020
- FreeAgent acquired January 2018
- Coutts subsidiary
- Lombard subsidiary
- National Westminster Bank (NatWest) subsidiary
- NatWest Boxed division
- NatWest Corporates and Institutions division
- NatWest Markets Plc subsidiary
- Payit division
- Rbsi subsidiary
- Royal Bank of Scotland subsidiary
- Tyl by NatWest division
- Ulster Bank division
People at NatWest Group on FF News
- Jonathan Hall, Head of Digital
- Dame Alison Rose
- James Hodgson
- Simon Eacott, Head of Payments, NatWest
- Lee McNabb, Natwest Group Payments and Digital Assets Lead
- Emily Fallon, Regional Director - NatWest Group Accelerator
- Solange Chamberlain
- Paul Thwaite, Chief Executive Officer
Latest NatWest Group news
- NatWest Slashes Marketing Compliance Times by 80% with Adclear AI Integration 28 October 2026
- 93% of UK Businesses Demand Bank-Level Regulation for Open Banking Providers 26 October 2026 Merchants Eye
- NatWest Backs UK Government Plans to Slash Business Red Tape 23 October 2026
- NatWest Youth Offer to Connect 10,000 Young People with Careers and Entrepreneurship 22 October 2026
- NatWest, Nationwide and HSBC UK Join CFIT Coalition to Revolutionize Financial Inclusion 15 October 2026
- NatWest and NVIDIA Partner to Master UK Accents with AI Speech Recognition 14 October 2026
- Uinsure Appoints Tom Doyle as Chief Trading Officer to Drive Insurer Partnerships and Growth 13 October 2026 Insurtech Eye
- Housing Debt and Pandemic Scars: Why Under-35s are Failing to Reach Financial Independence 12 October 2026
- UK Treasury Appoints Major Banks to Lead Digital Gilt (DIGIT) Pilot Issuance 6 October 2026 TradeTech Eye
- NatWest Accelerator Expands She Scales Nationwide to Empower UK Female Founders 5 October 2026
- NatWest Group Launches Industry-First Voice-to-Voice Conversational AI for Personal Finance 25 September 2026
- NatWest Drives 23% Brand Lift Using Targeted Programmatic Video for SME Banking 24 September 2026
- Global Banking Giants Unite to Set Standards for AI-Driven Agentic Commerce 22 September 2026 Merchants Eye
- Final Rentals Secures Wales' First NatWest IP-Backed Loan to Fuel AI Expansion 21 September 2026
- NatWest Opens £100,000 London Accelerator Pitch Competition for UK Founders 14 September 2026
- NatWest Taps Former IKEA Omnichannel Chief Harsh Agarwal to Lead Digital Customer Experience 11 September 2026
- Icon Solutions and MongoDB Benchmark Hits 6,000 TPS for Instant Payments 8 September 2026 Merchants Eye
- Rezolve Ai Reports $130.8M H1 Revenue, Up 21-Fold as Google Validates AI Infrastructure 3 September 2026 Merchants Eye
- Financial Services Leaders to Examine Scalable AI and Digital Transformation in London 26 August 2026
- Climate Impact X and Carbonplace to Merge, Creating Global Infrastructure for Environmental Markets 26 August 2026 TradeTech Eye
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NatWest Group video interviews
- Account to Account, Cards and Customer Choice: Where NatWest Sees A2A Going 30 September 2026
- Fraud Doesn't Start in the Banking System: NatWest on Controls Without Friction 29 September 2026
- You Cannot Automate Away Trust: NatWest on AI Agents and Payments 28 September 2026
- More Than Mood Music: What an AI-Driven Economy Means for Bank Payments 25 September 2026
- What to Come and Talk to NatWest About at Sibos 2026 23 September 2026
- Sibos Is Where Big Ideas Get Stress-Tested: Why NatWest Goes to Miami 22 September 2026
- Shaping Payments Infrastructure: Smarter Build-vs-Buy Decisions | Volante Technologies, NatWest, TSB and Nationwide | The Fintech Show #156 8 July 2025
- Volante Technologies’ Nihit Ahuja & NatWest’s Lee McNabb on Future-Proofing Payments Architecture 3 July 2025
- Build or Buy? Payments Strategy with Nihit Ahuja, Volante Technologies & Lee McNabb, NatWest 26 June 2025
- How Are Build-vs-Buy Decisions Shaping the Future of Payments? | Volante’s Nihit Ahuja and NatWest’s Lee McNabb 13 June 2025
- What's the Most Meaningful Connection You've Made? | Open Banking Expo UK 2024 31 October 2024
- Building a Bank for Smaller Businesses | NatWest, Bank of Ireland and Tuum | The Fintech Show #145 29 July 2024
- The opportunity at the heart of Open Banking. With NatWest. | FF News at Fintech Connect 18 January 2024
- Richer payments data is on the horizon. With NatWest | FF News at Fintech Connect 17 January 2024
- Fintech Connect 2023 Highlights 16 January 2024
- The Fintech Show #133 - Winter is Coming and So Is AI in the financial sector: Looking Beyond the Buzzword with NatWest, SmartStream and UniCredit 7 December 2023
- The Paytech Show #75: APIs Can Be the Key to Seamless Onboarding and Fraud Prevention. With NatWest and Volante. 5 December 2023
- The new and old in cross-border payments with NatWest | FF News at Sibos 2023 16 November 2023
- What will cross-border payments look like in the future? With SunTec | FF News at Sibos 2023 27 October 2023
- Emily Fallon Discusses The Future Of The High Street 7 June 2023
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NatWest Group thought leadership
- EXCLUSIVE: "Upgrade the Tech, but Trust Still Moves the Money" - Simon Eacott, NatWest in 'Discover Sibos' 7 October 2026
- EXCLUSIVE: "All the Gen" - Jonathan Hall, NatWest in 'The Fintech Magazine' 8 March 2024
- EXCLUSIVE: "The Big Bank Juggling Act" - Mark Brant, NatWest in 'The Fintech Magazine' 16 January 2024
- EXCLUSIVE: "Taking a different route" - Simon Lynch, Cymonz; Abhish Saha, Sandstone Technology and Simon Eacott, NatWest in 'The Fintech Magazine' 21 December 2022
- EXCLUSIVE: "Cracking KYC" - Jonathan Hall, NatWest in 'The Fintech Magazine' 6 June 2022
- EXCLUSIVE: “The Curtain Call” – Adrian Smyth, NatWest; Simon Brooks, PayUK and Louise Shorthouse, Icon Solutions in ‘The Paytech Magazine’ 21 March 2022
- Exclusive: 'Climate Conscious CEO' - Alison Rose, NatWest in "Swashbucklers 2020" 1 March 2021
- Exclusive: 'You ARE the key' - David Crawford, NatWest in "The Fintech Magazine" 11 December 2020