FirstRand Bank Limited

Financial Ombudsman decision DRN-3997564 Upheld

Upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman

£6,400redress stated in the decision

Mon May 15deadline to accept (not the decision date)

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What this decision was about

Irresponsible lending, Credit file reporting

In the Ombudsman’s words

irresponsibly granted him a hire purchase agreement he couldn’t afford to repayIrresponsible lending

Remove any adverse information recorded on Mr B’s credit file regarding the agreementCredit file reporting

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN-3997564.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.