Helping your business
We’re here to provide you support
When trading conditions are tough, your business needs all the support it can get. At NatWest, we’re committed to helping small and medium sized businesses meet the challenges of today’s economic climate – providing a range of support to help you.
We have a number of business guides which address the issues many small and medium sized businesses face today.
A practical guide to cash flow and finances (July 2009)
Get advice on maintaining a healthy cash flow and achieving profitability, and find out what information banks look at when they make lending decisions.
Helping your business in 2009 (February 2009)
Discover more about NatWest’s 2009 support for small and medium sized businesses. Learn about our new and existing product initiatives, including dedicated telephone support from business banking specialists. We also have £3 billion of additional funds – helping us to help even more businesses.
Trading through the economic downturn (November 2008)
With expert advice on key business issues, and an emphasis on improving your cash flow, this guide is essential reading for every small and medium sized business.
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Here are just some of the ways we’ve helped small and medium sized business during 2009.
An extra £3 billion of funds
To support UK businesses in 2009, we've made an additional £3 billion of funds available to small and medium-sized companies.
Enterprise Finance Guarantee – helping businesses get credit
With the Enterprise Finance Guarantee, we can lend to companies which don’t have the security needed for traditional bank lending.
Overdraft Price Promise
We made a commitment to our business customers to keep their overdrafts in place throughout 2009. Better still, we won’t make any changes to overdraft pricing until the end of 2009.
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