The Disqualification Files

Interesting “Loophole” Sees Another Director End Up With a Much Shorter Ban For Not Maintaining/Delivering Accounting Records to the Liquidator Than He Would Have Got If Those Records Had Proven He Did Any Wrongdoing With a Bounce Back Loan

A 6 year ban has been handed out to the Director named below who as you will see ended up with a much shorter ban than he would have done if by supplying his accounting records to the liquidator (which he failed to do) they had proved he abused the Bounce Back Loan scheme. […]

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BBL Complaints and Outcomes

Customer Complains a Personal Loan Was Declined as Santander Had Factored in a Bounce Back Loan Owed by a Company He Is No Longer Associated With – Ombudsman Doesn’t Uphold Complaint

Whilst this complaint was not upheld, the dates shown on the case outcome and when it was submitted, does give you some idea of just how long its takes the Ombudsman to determine an outcome of BBL related cases and how banks such as Santander have screwed things up for some of their customers by not keeping correct records.. […]

BBL Complaints and Outcomes

Halifax Customer Didn’t Read a Letter From Lloyds Requesting a Tax Return So Their BBL Application Decline Could be Reconsidered – Ombudsman Says You Should Have Read It as You Onboarded with Lloyds

To get a Bounce Back Loan if you were a customer of Halifax you were required to onboard with Lloyds, that is what this customer did, but didn’t read a letter Lloyds sent out regarding supplying a tax return, they complained to the Ombudsman who basically said “tough, you should have read the letter” […]

BBL Complaints and Outcomes

Barclays Decide to Close a Customers Account and Demand They Repay Their Bounce Back Loan in Full – Ombudsman Says It’s Permitted by the Banks Terms and Conditions So That’s The End of the Matter

As you can see from the outcome of this case, it is yet another in which the Ombudsman permits a bank, this time Barclays, to close a customers account and demand they repay their Bounce Back Loan due to the bank having terms and conditions which state they can do just that, often terms and conditions borrowers never read or saw. […]