NatWest UK, and it has a large network of over 960 branches and 3,400 cash machines across Great Britain and offers 24-hour "Actionline" telephone and online banking services. Today, it has more than 7.5 million personal customers and 850,000 small business accounts. In Ireland, it operates through its Ulster Bank subsidiary. In 2017, NatWest was awarded Best Banking App in the British Bank Awards. The bank's origins date back to 1658 with the foundation of Smith's Bank of Nottingham. The creation of the modern bank was announced in 1968, and National Westminster Bank Limited commenced trading on 1 January 1970, after
FXdirekt Bank FXdirekt Bank FXdirekt Bank was an independent company that had around 90 employees at its peak. On December 21, 2012, it began to liquidate customer accounts and return customer assets, pursuant to the order of the German financial regulator, BaFin. The company headquarters were located in Oberhausen, Germany. FXdirekt Bank was a member of the EdW ("Entschädigungseinrichtung der Wertpapierhandelsunternehmen"), which was an organisation created to secure investor claims and was also registered as a commercial bank with the BaFin the German financial regulator. The first German-language online trading platform FXdirekt was introduced onto the market in 2001 by the company