00:00Hello, my name is Greg Wright. I'm the Deputy Business Editor of the Yorkshire Post and
00:06here are your headlines for this morning. The boss of NatWest has said it would be a
00:11symbolic moment when the bank returns to private ownership, which could be achieved in the
00:17first half of next year. Porthwaite, who is speaking at the Financial Times Global Banking
00:23Summit said, I think it is reasonable to expect that we'll be back to private ownership next
00:28year, maybe as early as the first half. The government has been offloading its share in
00:34NatWest since the bank was bailed out by taxpayers during the financial crash. Mr. Porthwaite
00:41said it was on a fast trajectory to private ownership, which means we'll be able to talk
00:46about the future of the bank, but I'm having to talk about its past. My name's Greg Wright.
00:52I'm the Deputy Business Editor of the Yorkshire Post.
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