HSBC Bank plc

Financial Ombudsman decision DRN6052772 Upheld

Upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman

£50redress stated in the decision

Thu Mar 23deadline to accept (not the decision date)

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What this decision was about

Funds blocked or frozen, Service failure

In the Ombudsman’s words

HSBC applied account blocks preventing either party from depositing or withdrawing fundsFunds blocked or frozen

I think the way in which it went about things afterwards wasn’t helpfulService failure

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN6052772.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.