NatWest - News, Articles & Research

Tyl by NatWest cuts fees for struggling micro businesses

Tyl by NatWest has introduced a new payments terminal and pricing scheme for micro businesses facing up to growing economic hardship.

04 October 2022

News/sustainable

NatWest pledges support to SMEs amid UK energy crisis

NatWest and the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) have teamed up to analyse and provide support to UK businesses struggling with the cost of living crisis.

23 September 2022

News/regulation

NatWest to refund £600,000 to business customers in CMA crackdown on 'bundling'

NatWest is set to refund hundreds of business customers after it wrongfully forced them to open current accounts to secure a loan.

31 August 2022

Company announcement/payments

NatWest's Payit and JS Group join froces to get bursary and hardship funds to students in minutes

More than a third of students find themselves running out of money before the end of term, with almost 1 in 5 (18%) students relying on their grant, hardship loan, bursary or scholarship to pay their rent.

30 August 2022

News/people

NatWest rolls out menopause support app for employees

NatWest is rolling out an app to support staff of menopausal age and their partners, providing access to personalised advice, practical information and structured wellbeing support programmes from expert practitioners.

25 August 2022

News/payments

NatWest's Payit hits £1bn processed

Just two years after launch, NatWest's open banking payments tool, Payit, has hit the £1 billion in processed payments milestone.

15 August 2022

Company announcement/retail

NatWest taps Oak Engage to transform internal comms process

Growing tech and intranet firm, Oak Engage have been working with leading retail and commercial bank, NatWest Group to increase employee engagement through Adaptive Intelligence, state of the art technology to help businesses communicate with their people more efficiently.

11 August 2022

Company announcement/sustainable

300,000 NatWest users have now accessed their carbon footprint with Cogo integration

300,000 NatWest customers have now accessed their carbon footprint on the NatWest Banking app using the Cogo carbon tracking features.

09 August 2022

News/people

NatWest names Scott Marcar CIO

NatWest has appointed Deutsche Bank's Scott Marcar as group chief information officer.

09 August 2022

News/sustainable

How is NatWest’s Carbon Planner tackling climate change?

In June 2022, banking giant NatWest launched Carbon Planner, a service designed to help businesses in reducing their carbon footprint. To learn more about the solution, Finextra spoke with head of climate change at NatWest, James Close.

22 July 2022

Company announcement/markets

NatWat executes bond with DCM Flow powered by Nivaura

Nivaura has today announced that NatWest has executed a JPY1bn 5-year fixed rate note on the London Stock Exchange’s DCM Flow which is underpinned by Nivaura’s technology.

18 July 2022

News/cloud

NatWest Markets eyes big gains in migration to Google Cloud

As it transitions to Google Cloud, NatWest Markets is aiming to build artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities that can detect financial risks for customers before they arise.

14 July 2022

News/sustainable

NatWest unveils carbon planner for UK businesses

NatWest has launched a digital carbon planner to help UK businesses manage their future fuel and operational costs, and grow greener.

30 June 2022

News/retail

NatWest launches TikTok Business Builder campaign

NatWest Business has taken to video app TikTok for a campaign aimed at reaching budding entrepreneurs.

30 June 2022

Finextra TV/payments

Money 20/20: What challenger banks can learn from their predecessors

Andy Ellis, CEO of Mettle & Head of Digital Assets at Natwest, speaks at Money 20/20 about the lessons challenger banks can learn from their predecessors, what new challenges challenger banks face today and the type of opportunities for collaboration that present themselves in the future.

22 June 2022

News/payments

NatWest adds QR Code-based payment requests to business banking app

NatWest is launching a QR code-based version of its online payment service PayIt to help businesses receive faster payments of invoices.

15 June 2022

News/markets

Big banks test DLT-based intraday FX swaps and repo trading platform

Teams from 14 banks, including Barclays, NatWest and Citi, have trialled a DLT-based intraday FX swap and repo trading platform from Finteum.

14 June 2022

Finextra TV/payments

Why the cross-border payments space has been rife for disruption

Simon Eacott, Head of Payments, Natwest discusses on FinextraTV why the cross-border payments space has been rife for disruption, NatWest's response to these changes, and where the biggest areas for future disruption will come from.

05 June 2022

News/security

NatWest launches Confirmation of Payee API for business customers

NatWest has launched an API that lets commercial customers embed Confirmation of Payee into their own systems and processes.

30 May 2022

News/payments

NatWest pioneers UK’s first ‘non-sweeping’ VRPs

Making Variable Recurring Payments (VRPs) available to businesses and consumers for ‘non-sweeping’ customer payments, NatWest has become the industry’s first firm to go beyond the requirement to offer VRPs for account sweeping.

27 May 2022