HSBC Bank plc

Financial Ombudsman decision DRN7661245 Not upheld

Not upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman

£478redress 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

did not follow her instructions and open a savings account for herAccount closed or refused

HSBC did not provide the level of customer service that Mrs Q was entitled to expectService failure

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN7661245.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.