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NatWest Group serves UK personal customers and businesses, including companies that trade with and from the UK. Commercial & Institutional is its largest business by income, followed by Retail Banking. It accepts deposits and provides financing; mortgages dominate its personal lending. A smaller private banking and wealth management business serves wealthy individuals with UK connections and their business interests.
Customer deposits supply most of its funding, supplemented by wholesale funding and debt issuance. Borrowers pay interest, and the group also earns interest on central-bank balances and other financial assets. After paying interest to depositors and other lenders, the remaining net interest income supplies most of its income. Customers also pay for payments, financing and investment management, while markets trading brings in additional income.
The business depends on retaining deposits and on the gap between asset yields and funding costs as interest rates change. Lending is concentrated in the UK, with mortgages a major exposure. Capital and liquidity requirements constrain its operations, and UK ring-fencing rules prevent liquidity from moving freely across the group. The parent company relies on subsidiary income, and legal and regulatory limits can restrict cash distributions from those subsidiaries.
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Lloyds Banking Group and NatWest compete for UK households and businesses, so demand for borrowing and customers’ ability to repay matter to both. Watch Lloyds’ retail and commercial banking results for clues about the UK customers that dominate NatWest’s lending.
Barclays competes with NatWest to serve UK personal and business banking customers, wealthy clients and customers seeking financing and help managing financial risks. Watch Barclays’ push to increase the share of UK business customers: it puts more emphasis on a customer group NatWest also serves.
Banco Santander’s UK bank competes directly with NatWest for households’ mortgages and savings and for business banking customers.
HSBC Holdings competes with NatWest for UK personal, business and institutional customers through its retail and wholesale banking businesses. Watch HSBC’s UK banking operations rather than treating its group results as a direct read-through: its 2025 growth also reflected wealth services in Hong Kong and international businesses.
ING and NatWest compete to lend to companies, handle their payments, finance trade and help manage financial risks in overlapping European markets. ING’s corporate lending and cash-management business is the part to watch for signals about demand from the corporate customers both banks serve.
Deutsche Bank competes with NatWest for European corporate and institutional customers that need loans, cash management and other financial services. Watch its Corporate Bank’s lending and trade-finance business rather than total group revenue for a closer view of this overlap.
Barclays PLC earningsBCS
Barclays’ report will show whether UK businesses are borrowing and using banking services more, and how its push for those customers bears on NatWest.
Look for activity in Barclays’ UK business banking—lending and use of banking services—and evidence of its push to win UK business customers. Stronger activity with limited competitive pressure would point to demand supporting NatWest’s business customers; weaker activity or a sharper push for the same customers would make growth in NatWest’s business banking income harder.
Banco Santander S.A. earningsSAN
Santander’s report will show UK demand for mortgages, savings and business banking—the same customer markets NatWest serves.
Look at mortgage, savings and business banking activity in Santander’s UK bank. Stronger mortgage demand and deposit activity would show households still want to borrow and save, while also sharpening competition for NatWest’s loans and deposits. Weaker activity could ease that competition but would point to softer customer demand.
Lloyds Banking Group PLC earningsLYG
Lloyds’ report will show how UK households and businesses are borrowing and repaying, a read-through for NatWest’s predominantly UK loan book.
Read Lloyds’ retail and commercial lending alongside arrears and signs of impairment. Steady borrowing and sound repayments would point to support for NatWest’s UK customer demand and credit quality; weaker borrowing or deteriorating repayments would mean harder income growth and potential pressure on loan impairments.
NatWest Group plc earningsThis company
NatWest’s report will show whether UK customers’ borrowing and deposits generate enough income to cover funding costs, loan losses and operating expenses.
Read net interest income and net interest margin alongside loan impairments and the cost:income ratio. Stable or rising interest income and margin, without a rise in impairments and with costs contained, would show that lending and deposits are translating into profit. A narrower margin, higher impairments or a rising cost:income ratio would show pressure from deposit pricing, borrowers’ ability to repay or operating costs.
