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Arrived in Leeds yesterday and eased myself into UKREiiF with a quick catch up with a new prospect who reached out via LinkedIn. Always good to see the platform creating real world conversations, opportunities and to spread the word more widely as to what the Coutts real estate proposition looks like. The evening then moved on to a round table dinner hosted by the team at Irwin Mitchell at Chaophraya, alongside a great mix of guests from across the property and professional services sectors. Plenty of discussion around market sentiment, funding, planning and where opportunities may emerge over the next 12 months. Diary may be full this week, but the value is often in the conversations you don’t plan for. Official day 1 already in full swing. #UKREiiF #realestate #lending #privatebanking #connections

📢🚨HIRING KLAXON! We're hiring 2 x midweight Product Designers at Coutts , the Private Banking & Wealth Management arm of NatWest Group . There's just one application to complete but 2 unique opportunities: ✏️Product Designer – Private Banking Products & Solutions This role sits within our Design Studio and is ideal for designers who thrive on delivery and take pride in consistently producing high-quality, well-crafted experiences at pace. You’ll focus on the design and delivery of our online banking experiences across native mobile apps and responsive web, our primary digital channels for over 60,000 Private Banking clients. This is a great opportunity to build a strong reputation as a designer who can take work from concept through to launch with confidence and precision. 🔬Product Designer – Design Lab The Design Lab is a newer function with a strategic remit across design standards, design systems, shared research and design services, and experience strategy. As a Product Designer in the Lab, you’ll act as a ‘roaming’ designer, supporting a wide variety of initiatives across both the Design Studio and the Lab itself. This role suits designers who enjoy demonstrating and scaling best practice, shaping ways of working, and confidently ‘parachuting’ into teams or projects to provide design leadership and hands-on support where it’s most needed. It's an incredibly exciting time to be joining a small but mighty team of 20+ designers and researchers with fantastic opportunities to learn and grow. Must have right to work in the UK and the ability to work from our London office minimum of twice a month but majority of the team are in 1-2 times a week for collaboration. Apply here: https://lnkd.in/ewuiS8xi #product #experience #productdesign #midweight #ux #ui #experiencedesign

One to share with your networks – a rare opportunity for brilliant designers to join us at Coutts. It is an exceptional team, and a chance to help shape how Coutts shows up digitally alongside our Private Bankers.

Coutts Real Estate Digest – Now Live The latest edition of the Coutts Real Estate Digest is now live on our website, titled “Inflation to exacerbate divergence between rents and values.” It offers timely insights into current market dynamics and the implications of inflation on real estate performance. You can access it here: https://lnkd.in/eK4YfeeJ Please feel free to take a look and share with your professional networks where relevant.

Couldn't have asked for a better end of week. Congratulations to the dream team - super proud to be a part of this journey. Dream team at Coutts delivering Beautifully Designed Brilliantly Engineered experience for our customers. Lou , Damian - take a bow Thanks Emma, Raymond , Ruchika , Jamel , Dylan , Jan-Marc , James , Chris for your support and guidance Kudos and congratulations to the amazing engineering leadership team Arjun , Jacques , Muhammad Bilal , Pamela , Nitin , Ewa , Romain , Vinayak , Vinita

After more than 22 incredible years, the time has come for me to move on from Coutts — and what a journey it has been. It has been the greatest privilege to work alongside so many talented, dedicated colleagues and to serve clients who trusted us with what matters to them. The relationships I have built along the way are ones I will treasure for a lifetime. Coutts is a truly special institution steeped in history, driven by exceptional people, and defined by a standard of excellence that I have always been proud to be part of. The memories I leave with are extraordinary. To everyone I have had the pleasure of working with over the years — thank you. You made every single day worthwhile. A wonderful chapter closes, and a new one begins. 🙏 Please do message me if you want to stay in touch, Regards, Alan

An honour to be at opening bell of the London Stock Exchange today for the immensely important launch of the The Investment Association 's Retail Investment Campaign. Along with Emma Crystal, and the entire team at Coutts and NatWest Group , it is our huge privilege to be at the nexus of markets and people, bringing the power of both together for tremendous good. Many thanks also to the Chancellor, and Savvy the Squirrel!

Had a fantastic and deeply insightful day attending the Amazon Bedrock AgentCore & Kiro workshop hosted by the AWS team for Coutts Engineering @ Amazon Web Services (AWS) Office in London The session was packed with hands-on learning and practical demonstrations. We explored how to design and deploy intelligent agents using AWS AgentCore — from setting up agents in a sandbox environment to implementing secure access using OAuth. Particularly interesting was the discussion around short-term and long-term memory management, which opens up exciting possibilities for building more context-aware and adaptive systems. The second half of the workshop focused on Kiro IDE, diving well beyond the basics. The deep-dive into advanced capabilities like steering files, action hooks, and MCP really highlighted how we can push developer productivity and control to the next level. The level of detail in the discussions made it clear how powerful these tools can be when used thoughtfully. A big thanks to the Darren Ash Rafael Mosca at AWS for delivering such a valuable session. Looking forward to exploring how we can bring these capabilities into our digital platform at Coutts. Thanks to Sean Wang for Organising the session for us. Dansteve Adekanbi Hamza Bartanwala Anuj Sharma @Naim Choudhry Gunjan Kumar Arjun Baskaran #AWS #AmazonBedrock #AgentCore #KiroIDE #EngineeringExcellence #DigitalTransformation #AI #DeveloperProductivity #Coutts #NatwestGroup

Yesterday I met clients who have established their own charitable foundation. The passion with which they spoke about the projects they support — and the very human lives being changed — was genuinely uplifting. It’s a reminder that philanthropy doesn’t have to wait. Many people think of charitable giving as something that happens through a will — and there are real benefits to that approach. Leaving 10% or more of your estate to charity reduces the inheritance tax rate on the remainder from 40% to 36%. Worthwhile, but you won’t be there to see it. Lifetime giving is different. You can watch the impact unfold. You can stay involved. You can see the people and causes you care about actually benefit — while you’re still in the room. That’s what I saw yesterday, and it’s a powerful thing. At Coutts, our philanthropy team works with clients who want to think seriously about giving — whether that’s structuring a foundation, making it tax-efficient, or simply working out where to start. If this resonates with you, or someone you know is thinking about it, I’d love to have that conversation. #Philanthropy #WealthManagement #GivingBack #CharitableGiving