HSBC Bank plc

Financial Ombudsman decision DRN5846753 Not upheld

Not upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman

£275redress stated in the decision

—deadline to accept (not the decision date)

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What this decision was about

Account closed or refused, Service failure

In the Ombudsman’s words

delays by HSBC Bank Plc in opening an accountAccount closed or refused

The bank has accepted that it provided poor service to Ms SService failure

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN5846753.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.