Barclays Bank UK PLC

Financial Ombudsman decision DRN-4561621 Upheld

Upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman

£200redress stated in the decision

Tue Feb 13deadline to accept (not the decision date)

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What this decision was about

Payment delayed or failed, Service failure

In the Ombudsman’s words

Barclays held the payments for a significant period of timePayment delayed or failed

M had to repeatedly chase Barclays for an update on the payment, and that the bank’s actions were often reactive to M’s contact, rather than proactively follow its processService failure

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN-4561621.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.