HSBC UK Bank Plc
Financial Ombudsman decision DRN-3139334 Upheld
Upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman
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Fri Dec 17deadline to accept (not the decision date)
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What this decision was about
Treatment in financial difficulty
In the Ombudsman’s words
HSBC should have realised that Mr F was struggling, stopped providing the overdraft on the same terms and treated Mr F with forbearanceTreatment in financial difficulty
Source
This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN-3139334.pdf on financial-ombudsman.org.uk.
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