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Financial Ombudsman decision DRN-5649321 Not upheld

Not upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman
—no sum stated
Fri Jan 16deadline to accept (not the decision date)

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What this decision was about

Unauthorised transaction, Complaint handling

In the Ombudsman’s words

he argued NatWest should reimburse M as these transactions were unauthorised.Unauthorised transaction
Mr C complained to NatWest that he’d been into a NatWest branch earlier in 2023 to remove Mr F from the account and was assured that he’d already been removed.Complaint handling

Rules cited

Payment Services Regulations 2017

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN-5649321.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.