HSBC Bank plc

Financial Ombudsman decision DRN3983915 Not upheld

Not upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman

—no sum stated

Thu Jan 29deadline to accept (not the decision date)

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What this decision was about

Treatment in financial difficulty, Charges and fees

In the Ombudsman’s words

Mr A has said that HSBC has not followed the Banking Conduct of Business Sourcebook in terms of how banks should deal with customers in financial difficulty.Treatment in financial difficulty

Mr A complains that the charges applied to Miss G’s account were disproportionately high.Charges and fees

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN3983915.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.