NatWest status: access issues and outage reports

Problems in the last 24 hours in Smethwick, England

The chart below shows the number of NatWest reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Smethwick, England and surrounding areas. An outage is declared when the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line.

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NatWest Issues Reports Near Smethwick, England

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in Smethwick and nearby locations:

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  JesusJM (@hardhouse6) reported 16 minutes ago from Birmingham, England

  I will talk about failings by institutions like @Natwest not issuing him any investigation. He’s a vulnerable adult there must be a duty of care or support

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  Elliott Brown (@ellrbrown) reported 23 minutes ago from Birmingham, England

  Just remembered seeing that NatWest at St Philips Place and Temple Row is now closed down. Halifax on Colmore Row might be going too.

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  Mrs Spoon (@ChadwickCheri) reported 38 minutes ago from Swindon, England

  @TeresaTinsel @LloydsBank It’s really annoying when things like this happen. I often find it’s a branch problem. I had an issue with Natwest. One branch couldn’t do something for me, yet another could. So infuriating.

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  Martyn2😀 (@Martyn210) reported 46 minutes ago from Dudley, England

  @grantfeller Yet a customer in natwest locally in 2019 was asked what she wanted £5000 for she had to fill in a form, it was for a new kitchen, I was in the queue waiting to be served, it was her money .

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  AJKearney (@aquaticsmum64) reported 52 minutes ago from Aldridge, England

  Really disappointing that @NatWest_Help use a web chat service for nok to report a bereavement. Totally impersonal at such a difficult time. So glad I don’t actually bank with you 🥲 #NatWest #Bereavement

NatWest Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Graham Johnson (@Badwanger) reported 4 minutes ago

  @ibrahim615899 @NatWest let me down as a student. They approved overdraft then bounced multiple cheques days later despite this, causing loads of hassle and lots of extra charges. Complaint got nowhere. Post Uni, I eventually paid off the balance and closed the account. Never NatWest again.

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  Kenne_A (@StMollyBloom) reported 6 minutes ago

  This Cian_UTD bollocks doing the rounds, and I’ve got to say I don’t believe the majority of it, but if true, and Betfred and NatWest are looking at reimbursing and even compensating him, they’re setting themselves up for a real shitstorm. Anyone who’s ever known an addict of anything will know that it’s ultimately up to themselves to help themselves. And what BF and NatWest are seemingly about to do is set up a precedent where any gambler can freeroll the bookies and the banks by Gamstop’ing themselves, working around it, and recouping any losses. Why would you not? If I can deposit £5k to a bookies and go all out to try triple it in an evening knowing they have to refund me if I lose I’d be an idiot not to. Situation here should be as followed. Thorough investigation, apology if in the wrong and a review of their internal flagging system. And instead of a refund, assistance to Cian to get help with his addiction. Cian has been on the timeline for a long while with one grift or the other. If he comes out of this even or ahead he’s learned nothing. And in a few months time he’ll hit one of the other bookies with the same story. And someone help his ******* kid.

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  Earnings Prism (@earnings_prism) reported 7 minutes ago

  NatWest Group $NWG completed the acquisition of Evelyn Partners with an enterprise value of £2.7 billion on 30 June 2026. The acquisition transforms NatWest Group's financial planning and investment management capabilities, and it is expected to generate pre-revenue synergies of 20%, increasing fee income and boosting exposure to the structurally higher growth UK wealth market. Evelyn Partners had £69 billion of Assets Under Management and Administration at the end of 2025, which combined with NatWest Group's £59 billion, would have brought total AUMA to £127 billion and total Customer Assets and Liabilities to £188 billion, or c.20% of NatWest Group's CAL.

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  James Berkeley-Clarke (@JBerkeleyClarke) reported 13 minutes ago

  @Sargon_of_Akkad Probably an attack against sly news for harassing his family. Farage doesn't back down from a fight. Look at NatWest scandal he got the CEO fired! Watch what happens...

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  Teds (@Tedtalks13) reported 13 minutes ago

  I’ll go through the hole list of **** again Monday. Hmcts re the complaint of case file empty. (Wasn’t me on that hearing @Experian don’t care if she threatens to slit her wrists) Lloyds (and its energy company ) HSBC (and its estate agent and energy company) NatWest (just so you know did you birmingham wood fraud) Companies house (IT error) IPO office (reference your reference is one efficiency companies house) Ovo energy and its tupe (2p) sse notice transfer audit issue with eon Then a list of those law firms that agreed in 2018 to the bent bet that I found out about; that in those law firms they were involved in the house court case that moved even though stayed in any application existed @HMCTSgovuk has the walsal court Brough the police in yet and when can I see the hybrid video to show it wasn’t me

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  WGCitizens (@WGCitizens) reported 13 minutes ago

  My reward for years of customer loyalty to NatWest bank? Their pockets stuffed with profit and the high street branches closed, including WGC. Customer service? Nah, just shareholder fixation…and a failure to support those who’ve supported their company.

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  Paul Foster (@OldFozzy) reported 15 minutes ago

  @TiceRichard More likely the bankers, Couts & Natwest. Couts CEO in cahoots with the BBC shut down Nigels account a while ago, remember? and had to make a settlement with him because "his views being considered incompatible with the bank's "values or purpose". Revenge or what?

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  Pat Yale (@patyale) reported 18 minutes ago

  Been out to buy a phone packet to allow me to ring NatWest and ask why no transactions are showing on my account today. The guy effectively said 'it's a general problem'. No apology, no suggestion of when it might be resolved, no reassurance that money was safe. British tax-

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  Gabriel Sutton (@GabSutton) reported 26 minutes ago

  @WestStandWindy @MightyMillers20 He doesn’t need to do an awful lot though. Can probably transfer the operating budget into club accounts from the NatWest app on his phone from his yacht. Steve will know how to buy a player and run the football side. Head coach arriving tomorrow. He’ll have a managing director (Paul Douglas?) handling the non-football side. Facetiously, you’d say of all the things Tony Stewart has got wrong in recent years, having a holiday in May is probably the one thing he’s got right!

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  Duke of Lambeth (@DukeTinoM) reported 26 minutes ago

  @TheLightish @LloydsBank @WhiteSaiber It's always Llloyds my wife banks with Natwest and she never has this problem