Barclays Bank UK PLC

Financial Ombudsman decision DRN8650749 Not upheld

Not upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman

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Wed Mar 18deadline to accept (not the decision date)

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What this decision was about

Irresponsible lending

In the Ombudsman’s words

Mr R, who has a representative, complains that Barclays Bank UK Plc (Barclays) acted irresponsibly by increasing his credit card limit, and allowing him to use this for gambling.Irresponsible lending

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN8650749.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.