DFS Trading Limited
Financial Ombudsman decision DRN-4905534 Upheld
Upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman
£200redress stated in the decision
Tue Oct 01deadline to accept (not the decision date)
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What this decision was about
Credit file reporting, Product mis-sold
In the Ombudsman’s words
the search they did will have been reported to his credit fileCredit file reporting
DFS mistakenly brokered a fixed sum loan without a deferred payment windowProduct mis-sold
Source
This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN-4905534.pdf on financial-ombudsman.org.uk.
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