Barclays Bank UK PLC

Financial Ombudsman decision DRN-3685372 Upheld

Upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman

£700redress stated in the decision

Mon Nov 28deadline 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

Barclays froze Mr M’s account.Funds blocked or frozen

the business failed to comply with the time limits for complaints handlingComplaint handling

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN-3685372.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.