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NatWest Group Plc has begun shifting some of its wealth management operations from Switzerland to the UK as Chief Executive Officer Paul Thwaite has sought to whittle away costs across the lender.

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NatWest has revealed plans to shut down an additional 55 bank branches in the coming months, adding to the 53 closures already slated for this year.

Solange Chamberlain will this week be announced as the chief executive of NatWest's retail bank, three days after the lender returned to full private ownership, Sky News learns.

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Natwest is back in private ownership after the government ended its near two-decade long stake in the banking giant.

Here’s a timeline with key dates from the bailout of NatWest through to its return to privatisation on Friday.

NatWest - which was called RBS at the time - received almost £46bn of taxpayer funding in 2008 and 2009.

It means NatWest, which was previously called RBS, has returned to private ownership for the first time since it was bailed out.

The government is preparing to sell the final publicly owned shares in NatWest Group on Friday, drawing a line under one of the world's biggest bank bailouts after nearly 17 years.