WDFC UK Limited

Financial Ombudsman decision DRN3053999 Partly upheld

Partly upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman

£531redress stated in the decision

Mon Jan 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 A complains that WDFC UK Limited (trading as Wonga) made short- term loans to him when it shouldn’t have.Irresponsible lending

remove any negative information about loans 1, 3 and 4 from Mr A’s credit file.Credit file reporting

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN3053999.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.