Month: March 2022

The Disqualification Files

Company Director Hit With Disqualification For Over-Egging Their Turnover Which Would Have Been Hushed Up and Not Classed As Fraud If They Had Just Made Repayments According to a Barclays Boss

March 18, 2022

Whilst I put together the finer details of the project that I am working on with a bank boss regarding help and support for those struggling to repay their Bounce Back Loan, which I should have an update on very shortly, here is another case involving BBL wrongdoing which resulted in an 8-year disqualification. […]

Bank Bosses

Barclays Boss Says If You Over-Egged Your Turnover But Repay Your Bounce Back Loan That’s Not Fraud But Don’t Repay Then It Is Fraud

March 17, 2022

I knew there would be a whole host of Easter Eggs spurted out at the BEIS Strategy Committee Evidence Gathering session on Covid Loan Fraud on Tuesday, and low and behold Hannah Bernard, Head of Business Banking, Barclays Bank UK did come out with a corker. That being if you over-egged your turnover but repay your loan either in full or via the repayments you agreed when taking out the loan that is not fraud, but if you do not repay then […]

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The Disqualification Files

Lloyds Bank Wave Goodbye to a £30k Bounce Back Loan as Company Director Get a 5 Year Disqualification

March 14, 2022

Big day tomorrow, as I will be in the Palace of Westminster watching what is expected to be a highly charged committee meeting in which Lord Agnew, two British Business Bank “higher-ups” and a slew of bank bosses are being grilled about Covid Loan Fraud. Let’s hope they can all agree this time, but I doubt they will and it will end up being the usual arse covering exercise I have seen played out by each of them many times in the past. Until then here is another case in which a Company Director has just been hit with a 5-year ban for BBL wrongdoing. […]

BBL Complaints and Outcomes

HSBC Admit Account Applications Did “Drop Off Their System” and End Up Bunging a Business Owner Who Wanted an Account and a BBL, the Latter They Were Not Entitled to £200 Which The FOS Deem Adequate

March 13, 2022

So many complaints about Bounce Back Loans have been working their way through the Financial Ombudsman Service system, it is hard to keep up, but today I present to you another one regarding HSBC.
It is interesting the bank admits that account applications did drop off their system, something many people did experience when the scheme was live, and as you will […]