National Westminster Bank Plc

Financial Ombudsman decision DRN0661223 Upheld

Upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman

£2,964redress stated in the decision

Fri Sep 25deadline 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

didn’t take action after being told to freeze the company’s accountFunds blocked or frozen

Pay P’s liquidators £250 for the difficulties they’ve had in resolving this complaintComplaint handling

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN0661223.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.