Barclays Bank UK PLC

Financial Ombudsman decision DRN-4506130 Upheld

Upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman

£50redress stated in the decision

Tue Mar 19deadline 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

blocked his card while he was trying to make a paymentFunds blocked or frozen

There’s been a fair amount of debate about how Mr A’s complaint was handledComplaint handling

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN-4506130.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.