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NatWest Banks’ Stubborn Refusal to Allow New Customers to Access the Bounce Back Scheme Was Well Within Their Rights Decrees Ben the Ombudsman – Complaining to Financial Ombudsman Service Won’t Get You Anywhere

February 6, 2022

Today’s case shows the response of the Financial Ombudsman Service, both from one of their BBL complaint case handlers and a real Ombudsman when someone complains about a bank, in this case NatWest, not allowing new customers to access the Bounce Back Loan scheme when it was live. Keep in mind that the Government had asked all lenders to open their doors to new customers as […]

Sole Trader Hit with a 6 Year BRO for Over-Egging Turnover to Get a BBL and Another Person Gets a 10 Year BRO for Getting a Bounce Back Loan When Not Entitled to One

February 5, 2022

Whilst it is mainly LTD Company Directors that are currently being slapped with disqualifications for Bounce Back Loan wrongdoing, when they wind up their businesses with a BBL still owing, there have been several Sole Traders and individuals who have also been found to have abused that government backed loan scheme, and here are two cases that have just come to light. […]

4 Year Disqualification for Company Director That Got Two Bounce Back Loans for His One Single Business From Both Santander and HSBC

February 4, 2022

A rather low 4-year disqualification has just been handed out to the Company Director named in today’s case, who managed to get, and quite easily, two Bounce Back Loans for his one single business. […]

Metro Bank Snatch Back Another Bounce Back Loan As It Suspected a Company’s Estimated Turnover Wasn’t Correct, and Suspected It Was Not Trading on March 1st 2020 – Ben The Ombudsman Sides With the Bank

February 3, 2022

Here are the finer details of another recent BBL related complaint, in which Metro Bank snatched back a Bounce Back Loan and an FOS caseworker then a real Ombudsman both decide the bank were entitled to do so. […]

Despite Proving His Business Turnover Was Higher Than the Initially Declared Figure, Ben the Ombudsman Decides Lloyds Bank Were Right to Decline a BBL Applicant the Ability to Amend It

February 2, 2022

Another case today involving an incorrectly entered turnover figure when someone applied for a Bounce Back Loan. As you will see, even when proving beyond any doubt that an error had been made, Ben the Ombudsman says rules are rules and Lloyds Bank had to go with the incorrect figure. […]