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Financial Ombudsman decision DRN-4421768 Upheld

Upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman
£8,646redress stated in the decision
Fri Dec 01deadline to accept (not the decision date)

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What this decision was about

Irresponsible lending

In the Ombudsman’s words

Mr G complains FirstRand Bank Limited trading as Motonovo Finance (Motonovo) irresponsibly entered into a hire purchase agreement because he feels it didn’t carry out reasonable or proportionate checks to ensure the agreement was affordable.Irresponsible lending

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN-4421768.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.