Metro Bank PLC

Financial Ombudsman decision DRN-3561555 Not upheld

Not upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman

—no sum stated

Wed Aug 24deadline 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

Metro Bank PLC unfairly restricted and closed its bank accountAccount closed or refused

The bank applied a restriction to the account while it did so, meaning L couldn’t utilise its fundsFunds blocked or frozen

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN-3561555.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.