Santander sees profits fall amid Brexit uncertainty

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>High street banking giant Santander has seen UK profits tumble 15&percnt; as the group cautioned over stiff competition and Brexit uncertainty&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Spanish-owned lender reported UK underlying pre-tax profits of £1&period;39 billion for the first nine months of 2018&comma; down from £1&period;64 billion a year earlier&period; On a statutory basis&comma; pre-tax profits fell 13&percnt; to £1&period;37 billion for the nine months&comma; while they were down 8&percnt; year on year in the third quarter to £467 million&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>£1&period;39bn&Tab;Santander UK underlying pre-tax profits for the first nine months of 2018<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>Parent Banco Santander said the UK performance came amid a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;highly competitive environment with some remaining uncertainties over Brexit”&period; The UK arm has continued to see profit margins on mortgages come under pressure&comma; while costs have also increased&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It also revealed the group is &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;co-operating” with a Financial Conduct Authority &lpar;FCA&rpar; investigation over deceased customer accounts&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The group’s quarterly results showed profits were hit by a 6&percnt; drop in net interest income after making less money on its mortgage book&comma; which was only partially offset by stronger gross mortgage lending and cuts to its savings rates&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Net mortgage lending – gross loans less repayments – rose by £2&period;3 billion over the nine months&comma; with gross mortgage lending of £21&period;3 billion against £18&period;3 billion a year earlier&period; Santander has suffered after being hit by lower mortgage pricing and the loss of customers on standard variable rate deals&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Its customer savings balance fell £3&period;4 billion as it also trimmed its rates on deposits&period; But the group saw an improvement in charges in the third quarter as it took no further hit from the payment protection insurance &lpar;PPI&rpar; mis-selling scandal&comma; while there was also no extra provisions for failed outsourcer Carillion or troubled group Interserve&comma; which had affected previous results&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>In an uncertain environment&comma; we continue to control business growth&comma; prioritising credit quality while delivering for our customers<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>For the full-year&comma; Santander warned that its net mortgage lending will be &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;slightly below market growth” as it focuses on less risky business and retention&period; Its net interest margin will also be lower for 2018&comma; while costs for the year will be higher&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Santander UK chief executive Nathan Bostock said&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;In an uncertain environment&comma; we continue to control business growth&comma; prioritising credit quality while delivering for our customers&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He added&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Our results reflect competitive income pressures and higher regulatory project costs&comma; as well as the impact of ring-fence transfers&period;” Santander said it expects UK economic growth to improve slightly and inflation to continue easing&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It is pencilling in another quarter-point interest rate rise in the second half of 2019&comma; from 0&period;75&percnt; to 1&percnt;&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The wider Banco Santander group posted a 1&percnt; rise in third quarter underlying profits to 1&period;99 billion euros &lpar;£1&period;8 billion&rpar; as a healthy performance in Brazil offset weaker trading in the UK and Argentina&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>For the first nine months of the year&comma; 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