WDFC UK Limited

Financial Ombudsman decision DRN8827353 Upheld

Upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman

—no sum stated

Fri Apr 01deadline to accept (not the decision date)

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What this decision was about

Irresponsible lending, Credit file reporting

In the Ombudsman’s words

Miss B complains that WDFC UK Limited (trading as Wonga.com) didn’t carry out proper checks and irresponsibly lent her unaffordable payday loans.Irresponsible lending

And it should also remove all reference to the loans from that date from her credit file.Credit file reporting

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN8827353.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.