Barclays Bank UK PLC

Financial Ombudsman decision DRN-2765149 Upheld

Upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman

£50,000redress stated in the decision

Fri Aug 20deadline to accept (not the decision date)

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What this decision was about

Payment delayed or failed, Service failure

In the Ombudsman’s words

the delay in the release of his £26,000 transferPayment delayed or failed

Barclays incorrectly informed Mr B that he’d need an IBAN to carry out the transferService failure

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN-2765149.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.