Barclays Bank UK PLC

Financial Ombudsman decision DRN-2468409 Partly upheld

Partly upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman

£600redress stated in the decision

Thu Feb 11deadline to accept (not the decision date)

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What this decision was about

Account closed or refused, Complaint handling

In the Ombudsman’s words

Barclays wrote to Mr K in May 2019 to say that it would be closing his account with immediate effect.Account closed or refused

It recognised that it hadn’t responded to Mr K and his representative in a timely wayComplaint handling

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN-2468409.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.