HSBC Bank plc

Financial Ombudsman decision DRN7826925 Partly upheld

Partly upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman

£3,675redress stated in the decision

Fri Oct 12deadline to accept (not the decision date)

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What this decision was about

Account closed or refused, Complaint handling

In the Ombudsman’s words

HSBC Bank Plc closed its bank accounts without noticeAccount closed or refused

HSBC accepted in its final response of March 2018 that it had closed the accounts without giving the proper noticeComplaint handling

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN7826925.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.