Barclays Bank UK PLC

Financial Ombudsman decision DRN-5048421 Upheld

Upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman

£400redress stated in the decision

Fri Oct 25deadline to accept (not the decision date)

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What this decision was about

Account closed or refused, Payment delayed or failed

In the Ombudsman’s words

Barclays closed his business accounts without giving him any notice.Account closed or refused

unreasonably delayed sending the money held in those accounts to him.Payment delayed or failed

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN-5048421.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.