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Financial Ombudsman decision DRN-3085926 Not upheld

Not upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman
—no sum stated
Mon Nov 22deadline to accept (not the decision date)

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What this decision was about

Irresponsible lending

In the Ombudsman’s words

Miss B has complained about an overdraft National Westminster Bank Plc (“NatWest”) provided to her. She says the overdraft was unaffordable and shouldn’t have been provided as any credit search would have shown her previous difficulties with credit.Irresponsible lending

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN-3085926.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.