Metro Bank PLC

Financial Ombudsman decision DRN-3625029 Upheld

Upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman

£400redress stated in the decision

Fri Nov 04deadline to accept (not the decision date)

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What this decision was about

Funds blocked or frozen, Complaint handling

In the Ombudsman’s words

placed a restriction on Mr E’s accountFunds blocked or frozen

Metro Bank accepted that it had not handled Mr E’s enquiry as well as it might have doneComplaint handling

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN-3625029.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.