Metro Bank PLC

Financial Ombudsman decision DRN0047705 Not upheld

Not upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman

—no sum stated

Sun Feb 09deadline to accept (not the decision date)

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What this decision was about

Unauthorised transaction, Account closed or refused

In the Ombudsman’s words

Metro Bank identified that the payment of £10,000 had been fraudulent; that is, the holder of the account from which it was made hadn’t given authority for it.Unauthorised transaction

Metro Bank plc closed his accounts at short noticeAccount closed or refused

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN0047705.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.