HSBC Bank plc

Financial Ombudsman decision DRN3544193 Not upheld

Not upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman

£300redress stated in the decision

Mon Nov 16deadline to accept (not the decision date)

The Ombudsman does not print a decision date. The date above is the deadline the consumer was given to accept or reject the decision, which is set about a month after it was issued. It is reliable to the year, not to the month.

What this decision was about

Account closed or refused, Payment delayed or failed

In the Ombudsman’s words

HSBC accepted that it closed Ms B’s accounts too early.Account closed or refused

it should not have taken it as long as it did to cancel the original cheques and send out new ones.Payment delayed or failed

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN3544193.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.