Metro Bank PLC

Financial Ombudsman decision DRN0849866 Upheld

Upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman

£500redress stated in the decision

Mon Sep 03deadline to accept (not the decision date)

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What this decision was about

Account closed or refused, Complaint handling

In the Ombudsman’s words

Metro Bank PLC would not open a bank accountAccount closed or refused

The director of D says he was unhappy that Metro Bank would not tell him at first why it declined the application.Complaint handling

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN0849866.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.