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NatWest has increased rates in its core and semi-exclusive residential and buy-to-let (BTL) mortgages and remortgages. As part of the changes on its shared equity and Help to Buy (H2B) shared equity scheme there will be a 15 basis points (bps) increase on selected two-year fixed rate purchase, and ...

A BANK in Bournemouth town centre was closed yesterday due to a "technical incident". Customers were unable to access the NatWest branch on Old Christchurch Road. A paper sign posted on a metal board outside the entrance to the bank said: "Due to a technical incident we are unable to open today.".

A former NatWest bank branch which closed in a Derbyshire town last year could be set to be turned into apartments. The bank, on the corner of King Street and Campbell Street in Belper, shut towards the end of September as part of a raft of closures, which also included branches in Mickleover, Ashbourne ...

A man is furious that his community is losing its one and only Natwest bank. Peter Hughes discovered that the South Norwood bank would be shutting next month when he noticed a sign announcing the closure when he was inside the store this week. Having lived in the area for 30 years, Mr Hughes thinks ...

Some customers who were due to receive their £125 incentive from NatWest for switching their bank account may have to wait an extra two weeks for their cash. In January NatWest ran its first switching incentive in almost a decade, and offered £125 to customers who switched a non-NatWest current ...

As West Indies gear up to take on England in the four-Test series, their captain Brian Lara said his side had already put their NatWest Series final defeat behind them, and would take some positives into the Tests. West Indies did manage to reach the final of the three-way NatWest Series - eliminating England along the way ...

“Through Capital Connections, we're able to signpost a broad choice of funding options through its impressive range of alternative lenders,” Rose said. NatWest now has nine alternative finance companies on its Capital Connections panel, including Funding Circle, iwoca and Seedrs. U.K. financial institutions are required ...

NatWest has introduced rate changes to its core and semi-exclusive ranges of residential and buy-to-let purchase mortgages and remortgages. For shared equity, there's selected 2-year fixed rate purchases, increases of 15bps and 5-year fixed rate purchases, increases of 1bps on 70% and 75% ...

Business finance company MarketInvoice has joined NatWest's Capital Connections panel, which aims to help SMEs to access alternative sources of capital after being unable to secure traditional financial backing. Customers of Capital Connections are directed to a range of sources of finance, including ...

NatWest will also raise rates on a number of deals within its semi-exclusive residential and buy-to-let ranges by up to 11 basis points. A spokesman said: "Having reviewed our portfolio we have made some adjustments to rates to reflect the current market conditions and balance our mix of business.".

On its core range, there will be changes to its residential purchase deals. Two-year fixes will be increased by up to 15 basis points, depending on the relevant LTV. There will be more modest increases to NatWest's five-year fixed-rate purchase deals. These will increase by 1 basis point at both 60 per cent ...

Some of the steepest increases are on the lender's core and Help To Buy two-year fixed-rates, where rates are increasing by as much as 15 basis points (bps). Within the NatWest semi-exclusive range selected five-year fixed-rates will be raised by up to five bps. And buy-to-let rates will be upped by as ...

My mother died nearly four months ago, having made me her executor. She had banked with NatWest for more than 60 years. NatWest's bereavement services team advised me to take originals of her will and death certificate to my local branch where they would be copied. The copies would then be sent ...

End of the road - here's why this NatWest branch has closed months earlier than planned. The nearest branch is more than 11 miles away. Share; Comments. By. Holly O'Flinn. 05:00, 30 MAR 2018. News. Enter your postcode to see news and information near you Community updates, Crime Statistics, Local News & Events ...

Savers have been given a boost as a major bank is making it easier for people to get a 1.5% rate on balances up to £5,000. NatWest said from April 3, customers with its savings builder account will only have to increase their savings balance by £50 per month to receive 1.5% on balances up to £5,000.

NatWest has launched its first ever refer-a-friend scheme, offering some existing customers a chance to pocket up to £500 for recommending its current accounts to friends and family. The bank has picked 300,000 customers at random to pilot the new scheme. It promises £100 cash each, for you and a ...

Banks are warning about a recent string of fraudulent text messages which aim to convince people something is wrong with their accounts so they unwittingly hand over their personal details to scammers. Santander is the latest in a series of high street banks that have been imitated by the scammers.

The total will include unencumbered properties and those mortgaged with NatWest and another lender. In addition, the maximum aggregate customer borrowing allowed is being increased to £3.5 million, up from £2 million. The current £50,000 minimum income for aggregated borrowing over £1 million will ...

This reboot will see the bank introducing new products on both its core and semi-exclusive mortgage range. However, there will also be a number of products withdrawn, and some re-pricing of existing rates. On its core residential range NatWest has withdrawn the cashback offer from its range of two year ...

However, all customers will be required to meet a standard buy-to-let (BTL) minimum income of £25,000. NatWest is also increasing its maximum aggregate customer borrowing allowed to £3.5m, up from £2m. NatWest Intermediary Solutions service development manager Sarah Taylor said: “This important ...

Sarah Taylor, service development manager at NatWest Intermediary Solutions, said: "This important step will simplify our buy-to-let policies and means we can be there for a wider customer range in what is a growing market." Many lenders pulled out of the portfolio landlords market, or scaled back their ...

Controversial plans to open a Mexican-inspired bar and restaurant on the site of a former High Street bank have been given the green light. Councillors this week voted to approve the bid to launch a Dirties within the building previously occupied by NatWest in Whitstable. The application had sparked a ...

The Women's Prize for Fiction has revealed that three partners - Baileys, Deloitte and NatWest - will be supporting the 2018 award. The prize - known for the past four years as the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, and before that, the Orange Prize for Fiction (1996-2012) - will now revert to being named the ...

Pitches can also be shared on the NatWest Business Pitch App Facebook Page. The app requires an iPhone 5 or above or an iPad second generation or above and can be downloaded from Apple's App Store. Gordon Merrylees, head of entrepreneurship at NatWest, said: “The launch of NatWest Pitch is ...

Our account is with NatWest and they inform us that it is to be transferred to the Wolverhampton city centre branch. This entails a round trip of over 20 miles, plus finding a parking place which is within reasonable walking distance of the bank. The Bilston branch staff are friendly, helpful and very experienced ...

The NatWest Entrepreneur Accelerator is the UK's largest free business accelerator network and is capable of supporting 1,000 entrepreneurs simultaneously in its 12 hubs macross the country. To reach its target of supporting 5,000 entrepreneurs in 2018, NatWest has created two distinct growth and ...

NatWest bank will launch four new fintech hubs in the UK as a result of the perceived low levels of confidence among UK entrepreneurs. These hubs will be located in Bristol, Edinburgh, London and Manchester, and will mentor 80 fintech businesses, introducing them to contacts in the Department of Trade ...

Natwest bank will launch new fintech accelerators in four cities across the UK in April, including one in the capital, it announced today. The bank will launch units in London, Manchester, Bristol and Edinburgh, supporting up to 80 fintech firms with a "technology team mentor" and access to government ...

One message sent read: “A suspicious login at 3.02 PM from an unknown device was found. If this was not genuine please login via” followed by the URL to their scam site.” It's especially dangerous, because if you have a NatWest account, it will appear in a message thread along with genuine messages.

For about a year now, the bank has deployed a text-based chatbot, also called Cora, which customers can use on NatWest's online help pages and that can answer more than 200 basic banking queries. However, a spokesman said that by drawing on advances in artificial intelligence, computing power, ...

Natwest told the Sun Online that 143 have been affected by the glitch. Customers can choose to add a nickname to their account when using online banking to make it easier to manage. But if you used an apostrophe in it, like "Sarah's account", then the chances are you could be stopped from accessing ...

More than 100 NatWest customers have been locked out of its online banking and mobile app because of a bizarre technical glitch which apparently penalises good grammar, MoneySavingExpert can reveal. The bank says it's trying to fix a problem with its mobile app which occurs when a customer sets a ...

Samuel, a father of two preschool-age children who lives in Kent, contacted Money after NatWest told him he was being dumped. He's been with the bank for more than 10 years, but it wrote to him on 12 January to say that it had, “with regret”, decided it would be closing his four personal accounts, plus the ...

Callers to NatWest's telephone banking system were told they would be unable to make payments to other banks, although online banking was unaffected. NatWest said it was working to repair the fault. Last year NatWest closed its branches in Wellington and Wem, and has announced the closure of its ...

The move is part of NatWest's plan to boost female entrepreneurship and become the best bank for women-led companies in the UK, the bank announced. Commenting on the new fund, CEO of commercial and private banking at NatWest, Alison Rose, said: “If women were to start businesses at the same ...

At the end of last year it was announced that Natwest in Gainsborough was set to close in June 2018. However due to extensive damage caused by flooding which occurred on March 5, the branch in Market Street will not be reopening. A spokesman from Natwest said: “We are communicating with our ...

Text messages claiming to be from NatWest are being sent by criminals to the bank's customers to try and swindle money from them. The messages look genuine but send recipients to a site that demands the kind of information that banks never ask for, reports Mirror Online. Customers are warned of ...