Lloyds Bank PLC

Financial Ombudsman decision DRN-6469940 Not upheld

Not upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman

—no sum stated

Thu Jul 30deadline to accept (not the decision date)

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What this decision was about

Irresponsible lending, Treatment in financial difficulty

In the Ombudsman’s words

Mr K complains that Lloyds Bank PLC provided him with an overdraft which was unaffordable.Irresponsible lending

Lloyds Bank didn’t respond to Mr K’s complaint within the regulatory eight weeks, so he referred his complaint to the Financial Ombudsman Service.Treatment in financial difficulty

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-6469940.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.