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Financial Ombudsman decision DRN1180012 Upheld

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What this decision was about

Irresponsible lending, Credit file reporting

In the Ombudsman’s words

Mrs W has complained that Elevate Credit International Limited (trading as Sunny) did not carry out proper affordability checks when lending to her.Irresponsible lending

He said if Sunny had carried out proportion checks, it would have realised from loan 3 that Mrs W was in an individual voluntary arrangement (IVA).Credit file reporting

Rules cited

FCA CONC (Consumer Credit sourcebook)

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN1180012.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.