Bank of Scotland Plc

Financial Ombudsman decision DRN0359097 Not upheld

Not upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman

£250redress stated in the decision

Sat Dec 07deadline to accept (not the decision date)

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What this decision was about

Account closed or refused, Treatment in financial difficulty

In the Ombudsman’s words

Mr S complains Bank of Scotland plc, trading as Halifax, closed his current account without any warningAccount closed or refused

Halifax has accepted that they didn’t handle Mr S’s financial difficulties as well as it should have doneTreatment in financial difficulty

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN0359097.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.