HSBC UK Bank Plc
Financial Ombudsman decision DRN-3349921 Not upheld
Not upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman
—no sum stated
Tue Apr 05deadline to accept (not the decision date)
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What this decision was about
Account closed or refused, Funds blocked or frozen
In the Ombudsman’s words
HSBC decided to close Mr S’s accounts and gave him just over two months’ notice that he’d need to make alternative banking arrangementsAccount closed or refused
HSBC blocked the accounts – which meant Mr S couldn’t access the funds in itFunds blocked or frozen
Source
This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN-3349921.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.