NatWest Group PLC (NWG) Q1 2025 Earnings Call

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WEBVTT 00:00:00.031 -- 00:00:06.279 Good morning and welcome to the NatWest Group Q1 Results 2025 Management Presentation. 00:00:06.279 -- 00:00:11.586 Today's presentation will be hosted by CEO Paul Thwaite and CFO Katie Murray. 00:00:11.586 -- 00:00:15.090 After the presentation we will take questions. 00:00:15.090 -- 00:00:17.573 Good morning and thank you for joining us today. 00:00:17.573 -- 00:00:22.259 As usual I'll start with a brief introduction before Katie takes you through the financial 00:00:22.259 -- 00:00:25.799 performance and then we'll open it up for questions. 00:00:25.799 -- 00:00:30.464 Against a background of heightened global economic uncertainty, we continue to focus 00:00:30.464 -- 00:00:34.529 on advancing our strategy through three key priorities. 00:00:34.529 -- 00:00:40.375 Discipline growth, bank-wide simplification and active balance sheet and risk management. 00:00:40.375 -- 00:00:45.020 Examples of our recent progress include the completion of our Sainsbury's bank transaction 00:00:45.020 -- 00:00:50.086 yesterday, which adds around a million new customer accounts with about 2.5 billion 00:00:50.086 -- 00:00:54.132 of unsecured lending and 2.7 billion of savings. 00:00:54.132 -- 00:00:58.098 We launched a new mortgage enabling first-time buyers to combine incomes with a family 00:00:58.098 -- 00:01:02.684 member or friend, while retaining independent ownership to help them get on the property 00:01:02.684 -- 00:01:04.707 ladder sooner. 00:01:04.707 -- 00:01:09.194 In business banking, we marked the 10th anniversary of our Accelerator programme, which 00:01:09.194 -- 00:01:14.341 has helped to grow and scale 10,000 small businesses across the UK by setting a new 00:01:14.341 -- 00:01:19.529 ambition to support a further 10,000 business...