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
Ambas Bay Trading Company with both Liverpool and German firms. In 1913, Ambas Bay acquired a large cocoa plantation in Bwinga and owned a rubber estate at Bai but due to war, business activities slowed in 1914. After the war, most of the firm's properties in Victoria were sold to W.D. Woodin and Co and remaining shares were sold to the African & Eastern Trade Corporation. In San Fernando Po, Ambas Bay Trading continued to conduct business under the name until 1970. Ambas Bay Trading Company Ambas Bay Trading Company was a British company which operated in Cameroon between 1884 and 1920. It was