Barclays Bank Plc
Financial Ombudsman decision DRN8171717 Not upheld
Not upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman
£750redress stated in the decision
Thu Oct 24deadline to accept (not the decision date)
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What this decision was about
Funds blocked or frozen, Complaint handling
In the Ombudsman’s words
it suspended them, meaning that she couldn’t make any payments or withdraw cashFunds blocked or frozen
There’s no dispute that the bank didn’t handle things wellComplaint handling
Source
This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN8171717.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.