Barclays Bank UK PLC

Financial Ombudsman decision DRN-3591680 Upheld

Upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman

£600redress stated in the decision

Wed Mar 22deadline to accept (not the decision date)

The Ombudsman does not print a decision date. The date above is the deadline the consumer was given to accept or reject the decision, which is set about a month after it was issued. It is reliable to the year, not to the month.

What this decision was about

Account closed or refused, Service failure

In the Ombudsman’s words

its request to open a new bank accountAccount closed or refused

Barclays clearly provided C with a poor serviceService failure

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN-3591680.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.