Barclays Bank UK PLC

Financial Ombudsman decision DRN-1820046 Upheld

Upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman

£128redress stated in the decision

Tue Jun 16deadline to accept (not the decision date)

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What this decision was about

Irresponsible lending

In the Ombudsman’s words

Mr J complains that Barclays Bank UK PLC acted irresponsibly when it increased his arranged overdraft several times even though it knew or ought to have known that he couldn’t afford it.Irresponsible lending

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN-1820046.pdf on financial-ombudsman.org.uk.

The outcome shown is the Ombudsman’s own published classification, not our reading of the text. Nothing here is legal advice, and a decision concerns only the complaint it was made about.