Metro Bank PLC

Financial Ombudsman decision DRN-4740084 Upheld

Upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman

£750redress stated in the decision

Mon Jul 01deadline to accept (not the decision date)

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What this decision was about

Irresponsible lending

In the Ombudsman’s words

I think that the £5,000 loan was lent irresponsibly because RateSetter did not even check his self-employed statusIrresponsible lending

Rules cited

FCA CONC (Consumer Credit sourcebook)

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN-4740084.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.