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Financial Ombudsman decision DRN-5498721 Not upheld

Not upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman
—no sum stated
Mon Jul 07deadline to accept (not the decision date)

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What this decision was about

Irresponsible lending

In the Ombudsman’s words

Ms M complains that First Response Finance Ltd (“First Response”) unfairly entered into a hire-purchase agreement with her. She’s effectively said that the payments to the agreement were unaffordable and so it shouldn’t have been provided to her.Irresponsible lending

Rules cited

Consumer Credit Act 1974

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN-5498721.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.