Metro Bank PLC

Financial Ombudsman decision DRN-4682210 Upheld

Upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman

£400redress stated in the decision

Wed May 01deadline 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

place a block on her accountFunds blocked or frozen

unreasonable timescale for the block to be removedComplaint handling

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN-4682210.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.