HSBC Bank plc

Financial Ombudsman decision DRN8457624 Upheld

Upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman

£50redress stated in the decision

—deadline to accept (not the decision date)

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What this decision was about

Service failure

In the Ombudsman’s words

I did not agree with HSBC that it had no option other than to cancel the direct debit. I was, therefore, satisfied that HSBC had made a mistake.Service failure

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN8457624.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.