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NatWest blocks bevy of apps in clampdown on unmonitorable comms – Source: go.theregister.com https://ciso2ciso.com/natwest-blocks-bevy-of-apps-in-clampdown-on-unmonitorable-comms-source-go-theregister-com/ #rssfeedpostgeneratorecho #TheRegisterSecurity #CyberSecurityNews #TheRegister #NatWest
“Banks with net zero pledges helped raise $1 trillion for companies expanding fossil fuels Among them is NatWest, which may have broken climate pledge by funding BP BP is developing a ‘carbon bomb’ in Azerbaijan, host of COP climate talks” #banks #FossilFuels #NatWest #BP #climate (1/2)
NatWest has prohibited staff from using WhatsApp for work communications, citing regulatory and compliance reasons. #NatWest #Compliance #Regulation
https://paymentexpert.com/2024/11/13/natwest-blocks-staff-whatsapp-usage/
#Banks and financial institutions profiting from #weapons
By Clare Carlile
Friday 7th of April 2023
High street banks are funding some of the world’s most notorious #ArmsCompanies. We look at which banks are involved and what consumers can do. We also look at the wider financial industry and its links with #NuclearWeapons in particular.
How are banks financing the arms industry?
"Banks are behind almost every industry in the world, through their loans, insurance and other kinds of financing, including the arms industry.
"By funding arms companies, banks allow them to grow and innovate – developing new forms of #lethal weapons.
"In fact, banks are behind companies involved in the very worst forms of arms, such as nuclear weapons and #ClusterMunitions, despite the latter being banned by 120 countries.
"Unsurprisingly, arms companies are not generally picky about who they sell weapons to. This means that if a bank is funding an arms company, it may well be one that is selling to oppressive regimes.
Which banks are involved in financing arms companies?
"Unfortunately, many banks still finance arms companies.
"While some have said they will not fund the most destructive weapons, lots fall far short of refusing funding to arms companies altogether. And it is not just banks that are involved in the global arms trade. Lots of other financial institutions, such as investors, are also involved.
"Over three quarters of the brands included in our ethical current accounts guide lost half a mark under Arms & Military supply for their investments. This included all the five major high street banks: #Barclays, #HSBC, #Lloyds, #NatWest and #Santander.
"Banks such as Barclays, Lloyds, NatWest, Santander and #Citigroup, and other financial institutions such as #Aviva and #OldMutual have been named in relation to funding cluster munitions, nuclear weapons on the sale of arms to #Yemen.
What weapons are banks funding?
Banks funding cluster munitions
“Cluster munitions are indiscriminate weapons that pose a serious threat to civilian populations during and long after an attack. They spread dozens, or even hundreds, of bomblets called submunitions over an area the size of a football stadium or even more. On impact cluster munitions kill or maim anyone that is in that area. Also, many submunitions fail to explode on impact: they remain on the ground like landmines that kill and injure civilians long after the conflict has ended.'
"120 countries have signed a Convention that that bans the use, production, stockpiling and transfer of #ClusterBombs.
"Yet, in 2018, the Cluster Munition Coalition found that financial institutions had invested almost $9 billion in companies producing cluster munitions. Citigroup and Old Mutual were both found to invest in companies involved.
"Amongst the banks named in the report, Triodos, Co-operative Bank and Royal Bank of Scotland were all praised for having divestment policies in place.
"However, Aviva, Axa, Deutsche Bank, Edentree Investment Management, HSBC, Lloyds Banking Group, Bank of Scotland and Standard Chartered were all found to have incomplete policies in place."
#NatWest don't believe they can do online payments safely.
I can't see why else they'd behave as they do.
The high street banking group #NatWest is the latest company to be targeted by the Texas comptroller, #Glenn #Hegar, who has been naming companies that 
restrict their business dealings with climate-harming fossil fuel firms
Texas officials have added #NatWest Group to a growing list of financial firms 
considered to be taking part in a “boycott” of energy companies, in a move that could limit the UK bank’s business with the oil-rich US state.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/aug/15/texas-comptroller-adds-natwest-to-list-of-firms-said-to-be-boycotting-energy-companies
Who needs to go into physical banks when the Internet is so safe and secure, and Infosec is SO important to big business, what could go wrong?
https://www.mylondon.news/news/uk-world-news/natwest-london-cloures-immediately-map-28909832
#HSBC and #NatWest accused of financing North Sea #oil extraction despite climate 'pledge' https://buff.ly/4a3FuGy
" #HSBC and #NatWest accused of financing #NorthSea #oil #extraction despite pledge
Two major #UK high street #banks have been accused of continuing to finance #FossilFuel expansion in the North Sea despite signing a pledge to align their activities with the net zero #climate goal.
HSBC and NatWest have provided tens of millions in finance to #Ithaca Energy, a #British oil and #gas company that is playing a key role in plans to exploit the controversial #Rosebank oilfield north-west of the #Shetland Islands. Another high street bank, #Lloyds, also provided finance but has since sold down the debt.
A group of more than 80 organisations including #GlobalWitness, #Greenpeace and the #RainforestActionNetwork have written to the banks’ chief executives calling on them to cease funding Ithaca and to end their relationship with the company."
I'm very interested to hear the banks' responses to this in light of their membership of the Net Zero Banking Alliance ... #climateChange #Natwest #HSBC
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/mar/22/hsbc-and-natwest-accused-of-financing-north-sea-oil-extraction-despite-pledge
#HSBC and #NatWest accused of financing North Sea oil extraction despite pledge - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/mar/22/hsbc-and-natwest-accused-of-financing-north-sea-oil-extraction-despite-pledge "Campaigners call on banks to cease funding Ithaca, which is playing a key role in Rosebank oilfield plan" #dirtyoil
Is your #bank on this list?
- #BankOfAmerica
- #BNPParibas
- #DeutscheBank
- #DNB
- #GoldmanSachs
- #HSBC
- #ING
- #JPMorganChase
- #Lloyds
- #MorganStanley
- #Natwest
- #WellsFargo
Eleven of these banks have signed onto the #UN;s #NetZeroBankingAlliance #NZBA. Despit this, they are all financing development of the Rosebank oil and gas field
20% is owned by #DelekGroup, listed by the UN as illegally operating in #Palestine.
#NatWest: here’s an email informing you about a message in your online account
Also NatWest: it will take 2 business days for your online account to be accessible so whatever we sent you is gonna be a secret until at least Tuesday
Oh, what a surprise.
"Nigel #Farage lobbied senior #Tory minister over #NatWest complaint...
"...No messages from [Andrew] Griffith are shown in screenshots of the exchange provided by the #Treasury. He appears to have been using #WhatsApp’s disappearing messages function....
"...#Griffith went on to play a key role in the ensuing row, summoning the... #UK’s biggest banks to a meeting and raising concerns over the protection of free speech..."
"Let them eat cake" said a knight of the realm.
Clown country, lead by clowns and run for clowns. 
"A NatWest spokesperson said vulnerable & elderly branch customers were being offered support before closure: "Most of our customers are shifting to mobile and online banking, because it's faster & easier for people to manage their financial lives".
Not for joint accounts of personal executors of Estates of deceased relatives. #NatWest he say "No" to online joint authorisation of payments by Executors, or use of App, even after production of Grant of Probate.
Free tip: Choose a different Bank.
#NatWest hit by profit fears as it admits Nigel #Farage failings
Who knew the frog-like spawn of the devil could impact on a major bank's profits?
Or is the #BBC just crap at headlines?
Linking two stories about the same institution together do not make them cause & effect...... someone tell the subbies on BBC News