Barclays Bank UK PLC

Financial Ombudsman decision DRN-3631571 Partly upheld

Partly upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman

—no sum stated

Sat Dec 17deadline to accept (not the decision date)

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What this decision was about

Irresponsible lending

In the Ombudsman’s words

Mrs F complains that Barclays Bank UK PLC trading as Barclaycard irresponsibly allowed her to open a credit card account which was unaffordable.Irresponsible lending

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN-3631571.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.