Barclays Bank UK PLC

Financial Ombudsman decision DRN-4829843 Upheld

Upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman

£1,100redress stated in the decision

Mon Dec 30deadline to accept (not the decision date)

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What this decision was about

Account closed or refused, Complaint handling

In the Ombudsman’s words

A company, which I will refer to as B, complains that Barclays Bank UK Plc wrongly closed its bank accounts.Account closed or refused

When it issued its final response to B’s complaint, in November 2023, it said “we have closed your account in error”Complaint handling

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN-4829843.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.