NatWest status: access issues and outage reports

Problems in the last 24 hours in Reading, England

The chart below shows the number of NatWest reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Reading, 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

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Jennifer Thetford-Kay (@JenKteach) reported 10 minutes ago

  BEACON ALERT | MISSING VETERAN We need your help locating Stephen Blackburn who is missing with concerns for his welfare. LAST SEEN: Monday, 17 August, in Liverpool city centre, near NatWest on Lord Street/Whitechapel. Stephen had previously attended a charity football event at The Pitz, Liverpool, and is known to have links to both Liverpool and Preston. If you have seen Stephen, or have any information that could help locate him, please contact the police. Police Reference: LC-20260816-1486 Please share, particularly across Liverpool, Preston and surrounding areas. #BeaconAlert #MissingPerson

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  thea (@th333aaa) reported 11 minutes ago

  I hate Barclays too but at least they don’t make it difficult for me to login when my app plays up bc my app doesn’t play up like NatWest does

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  puristini (@jurisdoctrine) reported 12 minutes ago

  Emails included Wells Fargo Bank ING Direct HSBC Bank NatWest Capital One Citibank Chase Bank Dubai Abu Dhabi London Nigeria I opened accounts with login access as well. I went into both Chase and Citibank to deposit cheques sent by FedEx and UPS delivery service.

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  Craig Duncan / @fludded (@Fludded) reported 14 minutes ago

  @DPJHodges Nigel Farage has asked for help before. He wanted people to sign up on his website if they feel they had been debanked. They did. Armed with that, he negoctiated a million pound deal with NatWest, deleted the website and never spoke of debanking again.

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  Apple Intelligence (@appleinteligen) reported 15 minutes ago

  @Andrewislington @whitebearvt Yeah but on the app it also says you can also use the get cash feature at Tesco atm machines and the NatWest/rbs cash points. My cousin has a NatWest account and we’ve never had an issue as we live in an area with a lot of Tesco cash machines etc.

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  Chris (@Sparky2504) reported 16 minutes ago

  @AskNationwide This is exactly why I’ve now taken my 3 accounts to NatWest. Nationwide are so behind with the times with their procedures & systems. NatWest can usually fix everything online without having to call them. People don’t have time to call companies & wait on hold for ages anymore!

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  Ali@Makely (@MakelyStudio) reported 17 minutes ago

  I'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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  Sam (@rubyeyelashes) reported 20 minutes ago

  @Ste_Collins I’m an NatWest customer and I got my daughter rooster because it doesn’t cost me anything per month & it’s connected to my bank account and it’s really easy to use and you can add chores to it and when she does the chores she gets a bit of money

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  X Finance Bull (@Xfinancebull) reported 20 minutes ago

  🚨 $QNT holders, seven major UK banks are testing programmable bank money on infrastructure provided by Quant. Read those names again: Barclays. HSBC. Lloyds Banking Group. NatWest. Santander. Monzo. Nationwide. Led by UK Finance, the Great British Tokenised Deposit initiative is delivering live pilot transactions involving digital versions of normal sterling bank deposits. The easiest way to understand it is this: Your money remains bank money. But instead of sending it blindly and trusting every person in the process, rules can be attached before it moves. Payment releases when the buyer receives the product. Mortgage funds transfer when every document and condition is ready. Money and a tokenised asset settle together, so neither participant is left waiting and exposed. Quant’s Overledger provides the orchestration and interoperability connecting participating banks with RTGS, Faster Payments, Open Banking and tokenised-deposit platforms. That is why this matters more than another blockchain demonstration. The institutions are testing real financial activity across multiple banks, with fraud protection, settlement efficiency and programmability at the centre. GBTD also follows Quant’s involvement in the UK Regulated Liability Network, while its acceptance into the Bank of England Synchronisation Lab places the project beside the UK’s work on atomic central-bank-money settlement. Does this guarantee every bank will buy QNT? No. But it gives Quant institutional validation that most interoperability projects spend years trying to earn. If GBTD succeeds, the opportunity will extend far beyond one UK pilot. Other countries are also exploring tokenised deposits, digital securities and connected payment systems. QNT is sitting behind infrastructure the largest banks will need to make those separate systems work together. Many people will study QNT after adoption becomes obvious. I would rather understand why seven banks selected Quant before everyone else notices. My conviction in $QNT came before the headlines. Now the adoption is becoming impossible to ignore.

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  Melvyn Newell (@melv66722) reported 21 minutes ago

  @Londonist @DCBMEP “…began in 1971. ..nine years to realise.” (Working closely with Seiferts from 1975, as PQS for the now the Sea Containers Hotel, I was told that the delay in the NatWest Tower was as a result of a redesign for the tower footprint to match the new NatWest logo).