National Westminster Bank Plc

Financial Ombudsman decision DRN-3234661 Upheld

Upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman

£500redress stated in the decision

Tue Feb 01deadline to accept (not the decision date)

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What this decision was about

Payment delayed or failed, Service failure

In the Ombudsman’s words

it caused a delay in the cheque being cashedPayment delayed or failed

NatWest couldn’t tell him where the cheque wasService failure

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN-3234661.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.