Bank of Scotland Plc

Financial Ombudsman decision DRN1474330 Not upheld

Not upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman

£40redress stated in the decision

Mon Aug 24deadline to accept (not the decision date)

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What this decision was about

Interest and rates, Complaint handling

In the Ombudsman’s words

Mr S complained about the amount of interest Bank of Scotland plc (trading as Halifax) paid on savings accounts he’d opened for his grandchildren.Interest and rates

But I agree that it provided him with poor service when handling this complaint.Complaint handling

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN1474330.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.