Abbey National returning through the back-office

 Abbey has firmed up plans of moving as many as 100 data processing jobs from Edinburgh and Glasgow in the UK to Bangalore in a bid to cut costs.

 To this effect it has already entered into negotiations with multi-national outsourcing company MsourceE for a pilot project that will see some of its data input process for its protection new business, transferred from the two offices to Bangalore by the end of the year.

 Official spokesperson for the Abbey Group, Christina Mills, in an answer to a questionnaire however clarified,