Short Term Finance Limited

Financial Ombudsman decision DRN-3073792 Upheld

Upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman

—no sum stated

Wed Oct 27deadline to accept (not the decision date)

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What this decision was about

Irresponsible lending, Credit file reporting

In the Ombudsman’s words

Mr B complains that Short Term Finance Limited (STFL) lent to him irresponsibly.Irresponsible lending

remove any negative payment information about loans 1 to 5 from Mr B’s credit fileCredit file reporting

Rules cited

FCA CONC (Consumer Credit sourcebook)

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN-3073792.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.