Metro Bank PLC

Financial Ombudsman decision DRN-3291528 Upheld

Upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman

£150redress stated in the decision

Mon Mar 28deadline to accept (not the decision date)

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What this decision was about

Funds blocked or frozen, Service failure

In the Ombudsman’s words

Metro Bank PLC caused his other bank account to be blocked for a weekFunds blocked or frozen

Metro accepts it made a mistake by contacting H instead of a different businessService failure

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN-3291528.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.