The Disqualification Files

Having Blagged a £30k Bounce Back Loan from HSBC When Not Eligible for One and Having Transferred the Money to Herself a Company Director is Given a 9 Year Ban

Whilst there may be a case for leniency in the length of ban handed out or in fact whether a ban is given out at all in some circumstances when Bounce Back Loan wrongdoing has been uncovered, by blagging one when not eligible in the first place, that act of wrongdoing never going to result in sympathy, as the Company Director named below has discovered, as she now starts a 9 year ban. […]

BBL Complaints and Outcomes

Starling Bank Did No Wrong Says Jenny Lomax the Ombudsman When They Restricted a BBL Customers Access to Their Account When They Spotted Compulsory Strike Off Action was Registered at Companies House and She Says it’s an Event of Default

Make no mistake about it, BBL Lenders are all over Companies House, and anything they see that they don’t like the look of will often see them cancel a Bounce Back Loan agreement and demand immediate repayment of the outstanding balance, all with the greenlight of the Ombudsman, as the case below proves. […]

BBL Complaints and Outcomes

After Spotting a Notice for Compulsory Strike-Off and Dissolution of a LTD Company They Had Paid Out a Bounce Back Loan to, Barclays Restrict the Account of That Company and Get Debt Collectors to Chase the Director for Repayments – Ombudsman Says That is What They Do

Any red flags spotted by a Bounce Back Loan Lender will often see them restrict a Company’s Bank account, and that is exactly what Barclays did in the following case, which the Ombudsman Colin Brown says is nothing to complain about. […]

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BBL Complaints and Outcomes

Ombudsman Decides Not to Uphold a Complaint About the Frequency at Which Barclays Sent Text Messages and Letters About Missed Payments on a Bounce Back Loan

Whilst many lenders make the minimum amount of effort to let people know they have missed their Bounce Back Loan repayments, the complaint in the case below, which Paul Copper the Ombudsman has not upheld, does indicate Barclays are somewhat over zealous in sending out text messages and letters when someone does go into arrears. […]

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BBL Lender Uses “SWAT Team” / “Bounty Hunters” to Go Tracking Down Ne’er Do Wells Who Scammed Them Out of Bounce Back Loans for a Share of Any Recoveries – Early Results Reported as Being “Impressive”

Not sure how to describe the group that one major BBL Lender has teamed up with to recover dodgy Bounce Back Loans, I am stuck between “Swat Team” or “Bounty Hunters”, but either way they have been getting some impressive results very recently […]

The Disqualification Files

By Not Supplying the Liquidator With Accounting Records for a Company that Left a £50k NatWest BBL Unpaid a Director Gets a 6 Year Disqualification Which Would Have Been Longer If Those Records Had Been Supplied and Bounce Back Loan and Other Wrongdoing had Been Uncovered

Here we have another case of a Director getting a much shorter ban for not maintaining or preserve or alternatively failing to deliver adequate accounting records than they would have got if they have done so and those records had uncovered any type of wrongdoing. Ultimately a £50k NatWest Bounce Back Loan was involved in this case which was left unpaid. […]