Barclays Bank UK PLC

Financial Ombudsman decision DRN-5250270 Not upheld

Not upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman

—no sum stated

Thu Jun 19deadline to accept (not the decision date)

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What this decision was about

Account closed or refused, Funds blocked or frozen

In the Ombudsman’s words

In March, Barclays transferred H’s accounts to its recoveries department, at which point H’s current account was closed.Account closed or refused

Barclays wrote again on 19 December 2023 confirming that they had frozen H’s accountsFunds blocked or frozen

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN-5250270.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.