Month: July 2022

BBL Complaints and Outcomes

Barclays Told to Pay £500 Compensation to a Customer Complaining They Had Unfairly Declined Their Bounce Back Loan – They Then Finally Approve the BBL and It Is Drawn Down Nearly a Year AFTER the BBL Scheme Closed

July 25, 2022

This in an interesting case in which someone got a BBL finally approved and could draw it down earlier this year, (keep in mind the scheme ended to applications back in 2021), after shocking treatment from Barclays who declined their original application, and the customer has also just been awarded £500 compensation too. […]

The Disqualification Files

A Lenient 6 Year Disqualification Given Out to a Company Director Who Used Around 90% of His Company’s Clydesdale Bank Bounce Back Loan for Personal Use and Left It Owing at Liquidation

July 25, 2022

I have not seen that many Clydesdale Bank Bounce Back Loans turning sour, however I am sure there will be some working their way through the system. Here are the details of one of their BBLs that will be paid back to them by the Government Guarantee and saw a Company Director being hit with a 6-year disqualification for wrongdoing. […]

The Disqualification Files

A 6 and 7-year Disqualification Given to Co-Directors Who Overstated the Turnover of Their Business to Bag a Bounce Back Loan and Made Payments Not For The Benefit of the Business Using the BBL Funds

July 25, 2022

If you have been following the number of disqualifications that I have been tracking handed out to Company Directors recently, you will notice overstating turnover and not using a BBL for the benefit of the business are two of the main reasons a disqualification will be handed out when a business goes into liquidation, and here is another of those cases. […]

The Disqualification Files

An 8 Year Disqualification is Deemed Suitable Punishment for Company Director Who Overstated Turnover to Get a BBL and Providing No Evidence It Was Used to Benefit the Business and Left the BBL Owing at Liquidation

July 25, 2022

Lloyds Bank have been left to chase the Government Guarantee on the Bounce Back Loan they approved and paid out in this case which resulted in an 8-year disqualification, due to all manner of wrongdoing by the Director who applied for it for the Company now in liquidation. […]