{"id":3652,"date":"2018-10-26T07:09:44","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T07:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/rbs-warns-of-uncertain-economic-outlook\/"},"modified":"2018-10-26T07:09:44","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T07:09:44","slug":"rbs-warns-of-uncertain-economic-outlook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/rbs-warns-of-uncertain-economic-outlook\/","title":{"rendered":"RBS warns of &#8216;uncertain economic outlook&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div property=\"articleBody\">\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width lead\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-image-replace\" alt=\"RBS customers at cash machines\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/5668\/production\/_103302122_rbs_101112486_fvukhuli.jpg\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\"\/><span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><br \/>\n                 <span class=\"story-image-copyright\">PA<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Royal Bank of Scotland has said it is setting aside \u00a3100m to deal with &#8220;the more uncertain economic outlook&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>RBS is the first big bank so far to make such a provision in the run-up to the UK&#8217;s exit from the EU.<\/p>\n<p>The move came as the bank reported a 14% rise in third-quarter profits to \u00a3448m, from \u00a3392m a year earlier.<\/p>\n<p>The bank also allocated a further \u00a3200m to cover costs for the mis-selling of payment protection insurance in the July-to-September period,<\/p>\n<p>RBS is still 62% publicly owned after being bailed out by the government at the height of the financial crisis.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-45834820\" class=\"story-body__link\">It paid its first post-crisis dividend<\/a> to shareholders earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>RBS also disclosed that it had received approval from Dutch regulators to serve EU clients out of Amsterdam after the UK leaves the EU.<\/p>\n<p>The fresh PPI provision reflected &#8220;greater than predicted complaints volumes&#8221;, RBS said.<\/p>\n<p>The bank has now set aside a total of \u00a35.3bn to deal with the mis-selling.<\/p>\n<p>Chief executive Ross McEwan described the results as &#8220;a good performance, set against a highly competitive market and an uncertain economic outlook&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8220;We are growing lending in our target markets and are in a strong position to support the economy.  We&#8217;re aware there is much more work to do and are fully focused on improving for our customers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-45988575\">Source<\/a> by <a href=\"\">[author_name]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright PA Royal Bank of Scotland has said it is setting aside \u00a3100m to deal with &#8220;the more uncertain economic outlook&#8221;. RBS is the first big bank so far to make such a provision in the run-up to the UK&#8217;s exit from the EU. The move came as the bank reported a 14% rise &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}