NatWest

National Westminster Bank Plc

NatWest's headquarters at 250 Bishopsgate in the City of London
Trade name	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; 56 years ago (1968-03-18)
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.com

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. The British government currently owns 19.97%^[3] of NatWest Group after spending £45 billion ($61.87 billion) bailing out the lender in 2008; the proportion at one point was 54.7%.^[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 960 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.