Treasury sells £1.24bn NatWest stake as plans for public sale postponed
The government has sold £1.24 billion worth of NatWest shares, accelerating the process of privatising the branch bank. A statement on Friday confirmed that the state’s stake in the bank had fallen by about 3.5 percentage points to 22.5 percent. NatWest received several bailout packages worth billions of euros during the financial crisis in 2008 […]