NatWest status: access issues and outage reports

Problems in the last 24 hours in Newcastle under Lyme, England

The chart below shows the number of NatWest reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Newcastle under Lyme, 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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  Atil00503 (@atil00503) reported 2 minutes ago

  Elon 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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  Ceri Smith (@CeriSmith5) reported 2 minutes ago

  @CraigMurrayOrg I had similar with NatWest about 15 years ago. Suddenly decided I was running my business through my account. As a sole trader, invoices were paid into it but I argued that was no different from having a salary paid in. They eventually stood down

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  X Finance Bull (@Xfinancebull) reported 3 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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  Teds (@Tedtalks13) reported 6 minutes ago

  @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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  lauren ୨୧ (@michellesdowden) reported 8 minutes ago

  natwest resolved my problem in my favour hahahahahaha shame @ booking . com

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  Teds (@Tedtalks13) reported 8 minutes ago

  @travelod_Se I paid twice this morning. Online. The cardinal wouldn’t authorise me yet all the details correct as my NatWest asked me to approve permission. “ is comma still in your server “ I’m now not at the hotel because of that. and I’m waiting for combined legal counsel to account legally @WestMids_CA on protected disclosures

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  Liam⚡ (@TheDeanio) reported 8 minutes ago

  @MmisterNobody Yes when I was going through am awful time I lost all my savings after listening to a bunch of fool 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. *********.

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  X Finance Bull (@Xfinancebull) reported 12 minutes ago

  🚨 THE INSTITUTIONAL PAYMENT RACE HAS SIX CLEAR FRONT-RUNNERS. 🚨 $XRP $XLM $QNT $LINK $XDC $HBAR I ranked them by something more important than attention: Who is already connected to banks, payment companies, market infrastructure and real settlement activity? 1. $XRP The strongest direct bridge-asset design. XRP can provide temporary liquidity between currencies, helping payment companies avoid keeping money trapped in accounts around the world. Ripple’s full MiCA authorisation now gives its regulated crypto services access across the European Economic Area. 2. $XLM The strongest remittance and stablecoin network. Stellar recorded $5.5 billion in stablecoin payment volume during Q1 2026. MoneyGram also continues connecting Stellar-based digital dollars with cash access, and DTC expects tokenised assets to become available on Stellar in 2027. 3. $QNT The interoperability layer. Quant’s Fusion Rollup connects 74 networks, while UK Finance is testing tokenised bank deposits with Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds, NatWest, Nationwide and Santander. 4. $LINK The institutional connection and data layer. DTCC is integrating Chainlink into its Collateral AppChain for pricing, valuation and near-real-time collateral movement, with production expected in Q4 2026. 5. $XDC The trade-finance specialist. Native USDC and CCTP V2 are live on XDC, strengthening its position for cross-border settlement, receivables and tokenised trade assets. 6. $HBAR The enterprise settlement network. Archax is already using Hedera for tokenised securities whose USDC cash flows automatically follow ownership in near real time. One moves liquidity. One connects money with people. One links banking systems. One delivers trusted data and instructions. One modernises global trade. One supports regulated enterprise assets. Institutions will not choose only one rail. They will need an entire financial stack. These six are already positioning themselves inside it.

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  Magic hat 🎩 (@themagic_tophat) reported 19 minutes ago

  @BlueCityBrain Was going to do a post on it soon. I very much doubt an initial decision is still pending. For context, NatWest Markets plc v Bilta (UK) Ltd [2021] was ordered a retrial when its decision was still waiting after 19 months at the High Court. Chancellor of the High Court absolutely blasted it. He said decisions like these should need a good reason to take over 3 months in the courts and if they do, they get closely monitored. For it to take this long in private arbitration when there’s a requirement in the rules for a decision as soon as practicable… and the arbitrators have been working on other cases… totally inexcusable if it weren’t already out. Career enders. A hearing on sanctions and final award should be quick too. So no excuses. Only 2 possibilities I see: 1) Final Award is coming imminently. By end of July. 2) They have it but they’re waiting for the end of the World Cup (they shouldn’t be and could open themselves up to damages) 3) City launched an appeal after the decision on liability was issued and before the hearing on Sanctions

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  Jennifer Thetford-Kay (@JenKteach) reported 22 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