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NatWest chief executive Alison Rose resigned amid reports that she was the source of a story run by BBC News that wrongly claimed that Coutts, a private lender owned by her institution, closed the accounts of the former EU lawmaker and Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage for purely commercial reasons, the Guardian reported. More Amid concerns that Coutts closed Farage's account to avoid reputational concerns associated with his political views, U.K. officials warned bankers against excluding customers from financial services for purely political reasons, Sky News reported. More A U.S. couple charged with laundering billions of dollars in cryptocurrency stolen from...