NatWest Bank
www.natwest.co.uk

NatWest (London, UK; US$317 billion) offers some of the best general business information you’ll find on the Web. And the navigation, layout, graphics and style are also top-notch. They should add more interactive elements, such as financial calculators and customer service request forms, but we’ll give them the benefit of the doubt and expect to see them shortly.

From the start, you know NatWest is serious about business banking. Its first page gives consumer and commercial customers equal billing.

NatWest provides a wealth of resources for the small business. One area that is sure to be popular with its business clientele is The Business Start-Up Guide at www.natwest.co.uk/sbs/start_up_business/sbsplan.htm . The Guide is a downloadable software application that walks the prospective business owner through the process of setting up a business plan. At the end of the exercise an actual business plan (MS Word format) and pro forma financials (MS Excel format) are prepared. The program can be downloaded from the NatWest site by anyone, though you must identify yourself prior to the download with name, address, and telephone number.

NatWest’s online start-up guide assists
budding entrepreneurs.

Within “small business” Natwest provides several choices to further differentiate your needs.

When entering the small business area of NatWest’s Web, the business owner chooses from eight business needs/types (start-up business, growing business, small business round-up, professions, franchise, innovation & growth, business angels, agriculture) that helps them hone in on pertinent info right away.