Barclays Bank UK PLC

Financial Ombudsman decision DRN-2826120 Not upheld

Not upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman

—no sum stated

Thu Apr 28deadline 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

Barclays began to decline payment of various chequesPayment delayed or failed

Barclays said this was due to an IT software issue which affected cheque imagining across the banking sectorService failure

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN-2826120.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.