HSBC Bank plc

Financial Ombudsman decision DRN-4266531 Upheld

Upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman

£379redress stated in the decision

Mon Sep 18deadline to accept (not the decision date)

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What this decision was about

Account closed or refused, Service failure

In the Ombudsman’s words

HSBC UK Bank Plc wouldn’t open fixed rate savers accountsAccount closed or refused

HSBC has communicated very poorly with Mr JService failure

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN-4266531.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.