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Barclays Bank UK PLC
Financial Ombudsman decision DRN-5487376 Not upheld
Not upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman
—no sum stated
Wed May 14deadline to accept (not the decision date)
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What this decision was about
Funds blocked or frozen, Complaint handling
In the Ombudsman’s words
Barclays Bank UK PLC unfairly blocked their accountsFunds blocked or frozen
Barclays hadn’t explained why it was reviewing the accounts and had given him conflicting timeframes when it would unfreeze themComplaint handling
Rules cited
Source
This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN-5487376.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.