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Financial Ombudsman decision DRN-2946604 Upheld

Upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman
£400redress stated in the decision
Mon Aug 16deadline to accept (not the decision date)

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What this decision was about

Service failure

In the Ombudsman’s words

Rational FX should have communicated that it intended to cancel the forward contract to R at the earliest possible time, such that R had the opportunity to make alternative arrangements, if it so wished.Service failure

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN-2946604.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.