HSBC UK Bank Plc
Financial Ombudsman decision DRN-4864169 Upheld
Upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman
£500redress stated in the decision
Thu Jul 18deadline to accept (not the decision date)
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What this decision was about
Funds blocked or frozen, Service failure
In the Ombudsman’s words
H’s accounts with HSBC were blocked on 16 December 2022Funds blocked or frozen
HSBC’s poor communicationService failure
Source
This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN-4864169.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.