Western Circle Limited

Financial Ombudsman decision DRN-5987889 Not upheld

Not upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman

—no sum stated

Wed Mar 11deadline to accept (not the decision date)

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What this decision was about

Irresponsible lending, Support for vulnerable customers

In the Ombudsman’s words

gave him a loan without carrying out sufficient affordability checksIrresponsible lending

Mr M was vulnerable at the time, and this impacted his financial decision makingSupport for vulnerable customers

Rules cited

Consumer Credit Act 1974, FCA CONC (Consumer Credit sourcebook)

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN-5987889.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.