Tagged: natwest group

October 11, 2025 @ 4:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

NatWest has released their eleventh legal report analysing the financial performance of law firms across the UK following a survey of 110 participants. Optimism in the legal industry remains fairly high, with the majority or 84% of firms feeling generally positive about the foreseeable future,… Read More

August 25, 2025 @ 2:50 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ten UK regions have recorded a rise in startup activity in the first half of 2025, signaling renewed confidence in the country’s entrepreneurial sector. According to the New Startup Index from NatWest and Beauhurst, the North East saw the fastest relative growth, with over 10,000… Read More

July 17, 2025 @ 9:50 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The latest NatWest Regional Growth Tracker showed improved performances across most parts of the UK in June, with business activity rising in eight out of the 12 nations and regions monitored. The Tracker – which did a survey of businesses operating in the manufacturing and… Read More

June 28, 2025 @ 12:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

FourTwoThree, the smart climate action platform, is launching with strategic investment from NatWest Group, NAB and SC Ventures . The platform will connect enterprise organisations and their SME value chain networks to collaboratively “measure, understand, and take action to reduce their aggregate climate impact effectively.” The University of Cambridge recently… Read More

June 12, 2025 @ 8:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

NatWest Regional Growth Tracker showed renewed increases in business activity across several parts of the UK, alongside a general revival of firms’ growth expectations for the coming year. The Tracker – which surveyed businesses operating in the manufacturing and services sectors across 12 regions of… Read More

May 31, 2025 @ 3:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

NatWest has advised Birmingham Airport in a £230m debt raise across banks and institutional investors. NatWest has acted as Sole Debt Advisor and Sole Private Placement Agent to Birmingham Airport, “supporting the structuring and execution of a new £150 million Capex facility and £80m institutional… Read More

April 2, 2025 @ 6:32 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The National Wealth Fund (NWF) has announced a financial guarantee of up to £400 million to cover a series of new loans provided by NatWest Group to registered providers for the retrofit of social housing stock in the UK. The lending aims to help registered… Read More

March 21, 2025 @ 8:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

NatWest Group has announced that it has become the first UK-headquartered bank to work with OpenAI as part of a collaboration that supports its strategic focus on bank-wide simplification, which includes deploying AI to meet customers’ needs more effectively and to “increase productivity and efficiency… Read More

February 3, 2025 @ 11:01 am By Omar Faridi  |  

NatWest Group has made a minority investment in Serene, an early-stage AI platform focused on addressing financial vulnerability. Through real-time customer insights driven by AI and behavioral science, the platform “detects early signs of financial distress and predicts risks to help financial institutions deliver personalized,… Read More

October 6, 2024 @ 2:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

NatWest Group has announced a progress update on its ambition to provide £5 billion in new lending to the UK social housing sector, with the bank confirming £2.8 billion has been provided up to 31 August 2024. As explained in the update from UK’s NatWest… Read More

September 22, 2024 @ 7:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

NatWest reports that it has completed a multimillion-pound funding deal with North East’s believe housing. NatWest notes that the £90 million funding package will aim to “support long-term growth plans for social housing association.” As stated in the announcement, believe housing has obtained a £90… Read More

August 1, 2024 @ 8:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

NatWest Group has announced that Paul Edwards has been appointed to lead the banking group’s asset finance business, Lombard, together “with specialist businesses providing working capital solutions.” Paul has been at NatWest for 12 years and “has held a number of roles in that time,… Read More

July 30, 2024 @ 10:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

NatWest Group has issued its first Electric Vehicle Green bond (the “EV Green Bond”) raising net proceeds of €750 million from institutional investors based in the UK, Europe & Asia. The issuance makes NatWest Group the first UK bank “to issue a green bond where… Read More

May 14, 2024 @ 8:32 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Business activity continued to rise across almost all UK nations and regions during April, latest Regional PMI survey data from NatWest showed. Just half of areas saw an increase in employment, however, with businesses “facing a sharp, wage-led rise in costs.” The PMI Business Activity… Read More

March 12, 2024 @ 10:40 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The latest NatWest Regional PMI survey showed business activity “growing across most parts of the UK in February.” Business confidence also generally picked up amid “a more broad-based improvement in underlying demand.” Labor market trends remained more varied, however, “with firms in most areas reporting… Read More

January 22, 2024 @ 7:58 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Business activity at UK small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) expanded at the fastest rate for seven months in December, “led by renewed growth in the service economy.” Adding to signs of a steady turnaround in business conditions, new orders “stabilized at the end of 2023,… Read More

January 17, 2024 @ 9:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

NatWest has launched an Energy Help and Support tool to help UK businesses reduce their energy usage, cut their carbon emissions and potentially “save money on their energy bills this winter.” Research from the bank has found “that 45% of small businesses say rising energy… Read More

January 14, 2024 @ 5:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

High growth businesses generally own few tangible assets, but can be rich in IP and intangible assets, according to an update shared by NatWest Group. These businesses can find it difficult “to use their assets as collateral to secure growth funding, especially when compared with… Read More

October 24, 2023 @ 7:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

TAB, the real estate finance and investment house set to have a £500m loan book in 2024, has completed a private securitisation facility with NatWest and Atalaya Capital Management of “up to £300m to support TAB’s lending products.” Both funding partners support TAB’s commitment to… Read More

October 19, 2023 @ 8:15 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The most common scams this year have been revealed – “with more than seven in 10 adults targeted by scams in the last 12 months, being hit on average three times each week – over 150 times a year.” Scams through digital platforms, social media… Read More