Equifax Limited

Financial Ombudsman decision DRN-4637628 Upheld

Upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman

£300redress stated in the decision

Thu Mar 21deadline to accept (not the decision date)

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What this decision was about

Credit file reporting, Complaint handling

In the Ombudsman’s words

Mr W complains Equifax Limited failed to remove a Notice of Correction (NOC) when he first asked them to.Credit file reporting

Equifax said their agent had misread Mr W’s initial contact on 17 July 2023.Complaint handling

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN-4637628.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.