Metro Bank PLC

Financial Ombudsman decision DRN-4303009 Partly upheld

Partly upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman

£50redress stated in the decision

Mon Mar 11deadline to accept (not the decision date)

The Ombudsman does not print a decision date. The date above is the deadline the consumer was given to accept or reject the decision, which is set about a month after it was issued. It is reliable to the year, not to the month.

What this decision was about

Account closed or refused, Complaint handling

In the Ombudsman’s words

Metro Bank PLC declined to open an account on her behalfAccount closed or refused

Metro’s communication could have been better and its service fell short of what X could expect in this particular caseComplaint handling

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN-4303009.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.