Gain Credit LLC

Financial Ombudsman decision DRN1297814 Partly upheld

Partly upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman

—no sum stated

Sun Sep 22deadline to accept (not the decision date)

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What this decision was about

Irresponsible lending, Credit file reporting

In the Ombudsman’s words

Mr M complains that Gain Credit LLC, trading as Lending Stream, lent to him irresponsibly after it failed to make proper affordability checks before approving payday loans.Irresponsible lending

So all entries about loans 6 to 29 should be removed from Mr M’s credit file.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: DRN1297814.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.