Lloyds Bank PLC

Financial Ombudsman decision DRN8544472 Not upheld

Not upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman

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What this decision was about

Irresponsible lending

In the Ombudsman’s words

Ms J and Mr K say that Lloyds should never have lent the money to Mr D. They say that if the bank had carried out proper checks, it would have discovered Mr D was a bad risk.Irresponsible lending

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN8544472.pdf on financial-ombudsman.org.uk.

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