Barclays Bank UK PLC

Financial Ombudsman decision DRN-2615343 Upheld

Upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman

£250redress stated in the decision

Mon Apr 05deadline to accept (not the decision date)

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What this decision was about

Credit file reporting, Complaint handling

In the Ombudsman’s words

adverse information being recorded on his credit fileCredit file reporting

Barclays upheld Mr H’s complaint and agreed that they hadn’t followed his instructions to close the account when he had asked them to.Complaint handling

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN-2615343.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.