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Financial Ombudsman decision DRN-2886137 Not upheld

Not upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman
—no sum stated
Mon Oct 21deadline to accept (not the decision date)

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What this decision was about

Treatment in financial difficulty, Mortgage administration

In the Ombudsman’s words

CBPF says it was entitled to end the finance agreement because Mr E missed a payment and then failed to bring the account up to dateTreatment in financial difficulty
Mr E complains that Close Brothers Limited (trading as Close Brothers Premium Finance) (CBPF) was wrong to cancel finance and associated car insurance when he missed a monthly payment.Mortgage administration

Rules cited

Consumer Credit Act 1974

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN-2886137.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.