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Coutts & Company

Overview

  • Firm name: Coutts & Company.
  • Group: NatWest Group.
  • Other firms included in this return (if any): None.
  • Brands/ trading names covered: Coutts & Company.

Current reporting period

01 July 2025 to 31 December 2025 

Overall

In H2 2025, complaint volumes were up 11% (vs H1 2025).

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Banking & Credit Cards

Our 1,603 banking and credit card complaints stem from our 294,000 accounts. This works out at over five complaints per 1,000 relevant accounts.

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Home finance loans

For every 1,000 home finance loans that we had outstanding, we received over nine complaints.

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Investments

We received less than two complaints for every 1,000 investments we manage for our clients.

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Provision (at reporting period and end date)

Intermediation (within the reporting period)

Number of complaints opened

Number of complaints closed

% closed within 3 days

% closed after 3 days but within 8 weeks

% upheld

Main cause of complaints opened

5.45 per 1,000 accounts

N/A

1,603

1,612

41%

58%

36%

Other general admin / customer service

9.46 per 1,000 balances outstanding

N/A

107

103

16%

78%

57%

Other general admin / customer service

0.85 per 1,000 policies in force

N/A

13

13

23%

69%

23%

Other general admin / customer service

4.84 per 1,000 policies in force

N/A

23

20

0%

75%

90%

Other general admin / customer service

1.93 per 1,000 client accounts

N/A

99

101

14%

70%

73%

Other general admin / customer service

41

36

11%

44%

56%

Other general admin / customer services