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NWG.L - Natwest Group PLC
Full Year 2024 NatWest Group PLC Management presentation
Feb 14, 2025 / 09:00AM GMT
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Presentation
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Good morning and thank you for joining us today. As usual, I'll start with a business update. Katie will take you through the numbers and then we'll open it up for questions. 2024 was a very positive year for the bank. A strong financial performance drove upgrades in our income and return guidance, and we made excellent progress on our strategic priorities, discipline growth, bank-wide simplification, together with active balance sheet and risk management. You will have seen that we also carried out directed buybacks in May and November, which supported a reduction in the government's shareholding from 38% to less than 7% now.
This makes it likely that NatWest will return to private ownership sometime in 2025, though