National Westminster Bank Plc

Financial Ombudsman decision DRN-6253146 Not upheld

Not upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman

£400redress stated in the decision

Mon Jun 29deadline 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

his credit card was blocked for fraud concernsFunds blocked or frozen

Mr B complains that National Westminster Bank PLC (‘NatWest’) blocked his credit card despite knowing he was abroad, and didn’t communicate fairly.Complaint handling

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN-6253146.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.