Across its High Street brands —Bank of Scotland, Halifax and Lloyds — it has far more branches than any other rival: 1,319 compared to NatWest's 738. But a ruthless cull is predicted.

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Howard Davies, NatWest's chairman, said: 'The findings set out clear shortcomings in how it was reached as well as failures in how we communicated with him and in relation to client confidentiality.

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