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National Westminster Bank, commonly known as NatWest, is a major retail and commercial bank in the United Kingdom. NatWest offers current accounts, savings, investments, loans, credit cards and other financial products.
Problems in the last 24 hours
The graph below depicts the number of NatWest reports received over the last 24 hours by time of day. When the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line, an outage is determined.
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Most Reported Problems
The following are the most recent problems reported by NatWest users through our website.
- Website (31%)
- Mobile App (31%)
- Login (15%)
- Transfer (15%)
- Transactions (8%)
Live Outage Map
The most recent NatWest outage reports came from the following cities: Plymouth, Buckingham, and Milton Keynes.
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Mobile App | 28 days ago |
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Login | 28 days ago |
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Transfer | 1 month ago |
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Website | 2 months ago |
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Website | 2 months ago |
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Mobile App | 2 months ago |
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NatWest Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Rt Hon Prof Lord Andrew GCVO KHP FRCS FTSE MSCI (@PrivateIncome) reported@DustyBo80599309 @SophieP25397 £23bn from “9 years ago”? Mate, the bailouts were 2007-09. That’s not “9 years ago”. Your £23bn figure was a 2018 OBR snapshot, not a live invoice. We’ve fully exited every single intervention — final NatWest shares sold May 2025. No ring-fenced ‘bailout debt’ still sitting there waiting for your PAYE. Debt is aggregate. Interest is paid on the total stock. Treating it like a personal loan you’re still ‘funding’ is pure fantasy accounting. And spare us the ‘hitting the vulnerable while ignoring tax dodgers’ sermon. Legal tax avoidance isn’t theft, and the alternative to those bailouts was depositors queuing outside branches and the entire system melting down. You’d have been first in the queue complaining about that too. Next.
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Ali@Makely (@MakelyStudio) reportedI've designed products used by 50M+ people across Sky, Virgin Media, NatWest and Citibank. AI didn't make that experience less valuable. it made the gap between good judgment and no judgment impossible to ignore. here's what's actually changed in 2026...
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Callum (@rapiddescentsco) reported@isabelrosesss This is the NatWest/old RBS digital banking login. It is designed to use multiple authentication methods but they've just stuck with partial date of birth id/partial passcode for the last 18 years or so! It could use the EMV card reader, but that'd just confuse customers.
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Ed MacNaughton (@EdMacnaughton) reportedNearly 24 hours since I called your automated service for a call back. Clearly need to review our accounts with NatWest.
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Lucy Dorrington (@TheParentGame) reported@santanderuk @TSB Why have you blocked access to online banking unless various ID demands and proof of earnings are met? You say it's the law, but I bank with Barclays and NatWest and haven't had to do this? I don't see how it's only necessary for you?
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Mohammed Azhar (@mdazhar1989) reported@suzuki2wheelers Hi, Our Access 125 had been given for service to Natwest Suzuki on Jun 4, and vehicle hasn't been returned back yet. The head of service is giving invalid reasons and keeps on delaying. Request to take immediate steps
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B (@brobertson2010) reportedAre banks in the UK experiencing issues? Friends are struggling to transfer (business and personal accounts) @BBCNews @SkyNews Down Detector is showing dozens of reports for Revolut, Monzo, Barclays, Nationwide, NatWest, PayPal etc.
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jeremyhead (@jeremyhead) reportedI did exactly that with NatWest and got an apology and compensation. (Think it was £100) Clearly an issue with training that needs highlighting.
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Teds (@Tedtalks13) reportedSorry also lloyds BAU NatWest BAU HSBC uk bau With foi of all collaborations or service agreements in IT
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Joanne Fowler (@jofowler38) reported@birdman2 This post promotes a known scam using AI deepfakes of Emily Maitlis and NatWest CEO Paul Thwaite to advertise the fake Garlenix trading app. The linked site is part of an affiliate fraud scheme that tricks users into depositing money on bogus investment platforms. Please do your own due diligence. Reported as spam and deceptive content.
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Polsia (@polsia) reportedMost banks can't afford a $1bn AI transformation. BankrAI gives them the same thing for a fraction of the cost. Autonomous agent runs fraud monitoring, loan management, compliance, and customer escalation 24/7. Built by someone who watched NatWest do it.
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Kev (@suffolkev) reported@NatWest_Help my son is in America trying to use his NatWest card but you keep declining payments. Your app says you don’t need to tell you if abroad and your useless chatbot is no help. The “emergency” number is just an endless Voice menu with no option to speak to someone! 🤬
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NoOrdinaryFamily (@BooksFromNOF) reportedDon't you just love it when your @NatWest account gets locked for a second time in a week and you can't access your money? The second I get back to the UK, that account is getting binned. ******* useless.
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Atil00503 (@atil00503) reportedElon Musk, shall I tell you what else those NatWest employees—who scammed me out of 300 pounds—did? They kept blocking my contactless payments; and they send me a message asking me to reply "yes" if I try to make the payment or "no" if I didn't. I reply "yes," confirming I try to make the payment, and they send a follow-up message saying I could use my card—yet my card remained blocked. I called NatWest customer service and explained the situation to the representative: I replied "yes" to the message and was told I could use my card again, but I still couldn't use it because it was blocked. The representative was surprised, said they didn't know why this had happened, and reactivated my card. Elon Musk, they kept blocking my contactless payments—and let me put this in a way you'd understand: they didn't do it for security reasons. In fact, I hadn't made a single payment with that card yet; I tried to make a contactless payment somewhere but couldn't because they had blocked it. The shop assistant even told me, "They probably blocked it because you made too many contactless payments today"—even though I hadn't used the card anywhere before that.
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Spencer (@SpencerGambles) reported**** happened with natwest but with around 20x more… absolute shitbags they are
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Ali@Makely (@MakelyStudio) reported10+ years. 50M+ users. £11M+ revenue impact. Mercedes. Citibank. Sky. Virgin Media. NatWest. Here's what I learned: Bad product flows can cost thousands, or even millions, in lost revenue. Regardless of company size. What kills conversions in big-name products does the same for startups: - Onboarding that loses people in the first 60 secs - Pricing pages that confuse instead of convert - Sign-up flows that cause decision fatigue I’ve seen that when you fix these - you get more from the traffic you already have. Now I build those same systems for funded startups - so they keep the users they've already paid to get.
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Tushar Motwani (@Bombay_71) reported@RaoSumukh the thing is this pose and everything around it feels good creatively only in that moment when India chased down England’s formidable target of 325/5 to win the 2002 NatWest Series Final at Lord's.
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Fred (@fred6279) reported@JustADayZPlayer @mountpleasants1 @NatWest_Help That message you saw was probably from either an off the shelf fingerprinting script in the Natwest website or you fell for a scam website.
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Lady Nikki Tees of Lochaber (@1950sLibrarian) reported@johntierney73 @NnatMmac @NatWest Natwest refused 2 payment on my account when my card was cloned. They knew I didn’t spend nearly a grand on Amazon or eBay usually. They then cancelled my card, issued a new one, and gave me a temporary overdraft to cover my standing orders & direct debits etc. Good service
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Jerome De Spencer (@clusterfeck) reportedClick the pic for a full report especially if you are a NATWEST customer.
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Teds (@Tedtalks13) reported@SecGenNATO in these @s that aren’t to be declared in another function. 1. What date did that energy firm sign a declaration that has specific requirements to be a NATO partner 2. What date did the cpr 7 become crown stamped sealed. 3. What dates did the directors change in uk versus eu main AGM board I have a list of merger acquisitions across uk in the pensions, insurances (including my business insurance tapped up of falcon yet the banking direct into HCC international that remained in place all through partial legal drafting while the initial public sector money was positioned for the demo of my software prototype The banks tsb no reason in their divorce with Lloyd’s; Lloyd’s business 2017 not notifying closure of account; of three partnership managers inside the bank of three different companies; my start up handed defined beyond the “risk assessment of the innovation. Partnering to further develop on the point of rejecting 100k of additional public sector money” (I rejected with ******* good reason) 2017/2018 there was a positioning error and error transfer of Lower court into not civil was positioned for intellectual court. 2018 had discussion re moving the asset of the house I rented (that had first entry in March 2015 while I was in cork for three days and my tsb banking removed off my desk in how I visually place materials in what is suppose to of been a secure save private letting). My dog was safe that short period as it was with a female and her dog. IN THAT period I was in business courts Northampton on written using Supreme Court high seat colour and symbols on documents; more than 13 case numbers (while others thought I was in some kind of gym bet! Get a life idiots) In that period I had also processed beyond the origin start of the system restructure; before I changed from virgin media WiFi domestic to ee business broadband; The click on inotes of the demo was clicked on the iPhone 6 that became a dispute in the old bullring of apple upstairs and VM downstairs where I asked for them to collect the phone after apple technical stated the cloud photos had been breached; (deleting the beginning of my work and my personal pictures of my not a pet.) apple Provided myself a new phone based on that. I then purchased an iPhone OFF AMAZON; where the ip of that and serial is on the box. these boxes and phones have gone missing however the iCloud records all that;; including the signalling through VM platforms (that lease from Bt ) ee platforms ( that became owned byBT and not a matter of bribery to use “all claims) and then the BT business that I kept running post eviction for the reason of security before they developed after many emails And calls from me (sound headset ) the vulnerable protection function they have developed. In these is another service level agreements that’s appearing in text words in NhS and charity banners. I recieved an email recent from NatWest claiming on the 1st of October 2026 to the October of 2025 that they can close an account if they choose fo no reason; Within these dates is Covid two credit ref agencies and three brokerage platforms Pre being procured into the comp house and dwp integration of proof and verifications. In all this period there is no social life, yet a lot of documents wrote and attachments in emails. I am aware that in uk some platforms that claim to contact manage can clone a companies email or persons and respond while the origin never receives the origin; I am being beyond mentally abused over the efficiency in the reason of enhanced . I have a legal right to be recompensed to live in a hotel be near my doctors and do small amounts that become and can become global work tasks What’s the issue; as the local aspect caused damages for everyone a small handle of people
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Matt (@MattBurnham82) reported@NatWest_Help I am no longer receiving notifications from my NatWest app when making payments, withdrawing or when using Apple all Notifications are on my the app and on my iPhone settings. This happened a week ago. Can you help?
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theVARdict (@theVARdict) reported@Nigel_Farage ****. This hounding is absolutely horrendous! It's almost like they spend more than 1 minute knocking on the door. Is the same apology you wanted from Coutts because they rejected you for your dealings with criminals? If I were NatWest, I'd be asking for my settlement back.
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Blue Heart Papi 💙💙💙 (@ElPap1Chu1o) reported@GreekTheNic @NotFarLeftAtAll I guess it’s a case of iykyk. I’m a NatWest customer so I can tell
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rob seeds (@ReedsSob1983) reported@robprogressive Well thats bollocks i can transfer 20k daily with natwest with no issue whatsoever
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MrBounceBack.com (@Bounce_BackLoan) reportedToday’s @ShabanaMahmood “Don’t Pay We Won’t Take You Away” Award winner is Iftehar Ahmed director of AK Touchstone Limited. The @ukhomeoffice slapped his Company with a £30,000 civil penalty for employing two people with no right to work in the UK. He said **** right off I’m not paying that, so didn’t and didn’t pay a £47,362.00 Bounce Back Loan either, and has just been given a 5 Year Director ban instead. So the Government never got the £30,000 and would have had to pay back NatWest the £47,362.00 for Bounce Back Loan too. Lovely….
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Jonathan Mills (@Muinchille) reported@MLorrM You should also look at the Natwest/ Ulster problem. It doesn't apply to Barclays, but may apply to those insurers. In the 90s and 00s, Natwest only ever broke even on UK business. Its entire bottom line came from Ulster Bank in the Republic, even though it was only small here.
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Vlad G (@realvladhere) reported@pokemondealsuk NatWest no issues!
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Le Ref (@LeRef5) reported@Feargal_Sharkey @NatWestGroup It was the public authorities that delayed it that long you halfwit. The plans were formed in 1940s (public control) The land was bought in 1975 (public control) Plans were dropped in 1976 after a Public Inquiry on the back of NIMBYism (public ownership) Plans were revised in the mid 90s and not pursued as there was not sufficient identified demand. Mid West water only merged with SE water in 2007 so the history has nothing to do with them. Nat West's Pension Fund owns a 25% stake, not NatWest. Plans were revised in 2013 and hit the usual barrier - locals, NIMBYs and organised groups have been campaigning against it for decades. So sure, it's all down to the evil privatised companies
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Liam⚡ (@TheDeanio) reported@MmisterNobody Yes when I was going through an awful time I lost all my savings after listening to a bunch of fools about crypto. Pretty much everything I owned did well for a few weeks and all kinds of rich clowns be talking about HODL this HODL that like they're all some sort of secret alliance with the elites. I literally would have a bunch of different types of currencies so I had a variety. I could keep someone in for a good while and the moment I sold my bit of a specific coin, it would get a massive boost lol. One of them boost by like 10x within hours after me taking it out like they do it on purpose or something. The rest that I kept in just went down pretty much every day and some got rug pulled out of nowhere lmao. In the end I ended up that ****** up I made a stupid decision to take a loan out for only £10 grand where I got charged nearly £4-5 grand in interest from NatWest in just under a year. I ended up losing everything and I was guided to go insolvent lol. Still ****** now from it all and many people have the cheek to steal things from me. They want me dead, quietly suffering or locked up. They've told too many lies on my name because they couldn't take me out. Some of them have made a whole life out me these last few years too. It's quite hilarious. *********.