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Financial Ombudsman decision DRN-2849165 Not upheld

Not upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman
—no sum stated
Fri Jul 16deadline to accept (not the decision date)

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What this decision was about

Credit file reporting

In the Ombudsman’s words

incorrectly handled her personal data by merging it with details of a third party on her credit fileCredit file reporting

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN-2849165.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.