HSBC Bank plc

Financial Ombudsman decision DRN2356821 Not upheld

Not upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman

—no sum stated

—deadline to accept (not the decision date)

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What this decision was about

Unauthorised transaction, Support for vulnerable customers

In the Ombudsman’s words

complain that HSBC should not have allowed a withdrawal from Miss V’s current account shortly before she diedUnauthorised transaction

the executors considered she was a vulnerable customer and that she was persuaded to withdraw the money under duressSupport for vulnerable customers

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN2356821.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.