Metro Bank PLC

Financial Ombudsman decision DRN2275200 Partly upheld

Partly upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman

£150redress stated in the decision

Sun Jul 29deadline 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

placed a block on his account that meant he was unable to access his moneyFunds blocked or frozen

Metro could’ve dealt with the complaint more promptly and hadn’t returned a call to him or given him promised informationComplaint handling

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN2275200.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.