BBL Complaints and Outcomes

HSBC Review and Block Customers Account, Then Demand Repayment of Bounce Back Loan and Snatch a £10k Furlough Payment Meant for His Company’s Employees to Repay Overdraft and the BBL – Ombudsman Says They Can Keep the Furlough Money But Awards a Paltry £550 Compensation

I often wonder if Ombudsman working for the Financial Ombudsman Service have any real-life experience of running a business, for often they side with a bank on complaints they receive stating the terms and conditions hidden away allow them to pull all manner of stunts. Here is a case and its ruling that has just been given which lays out a story I hear day after day about HSBC and other banks that are part of the BBL scheme. […]

The Disqualification Files

Getting a Bounce Back Loan for Each of His Four Companies By Massively Over-Egging Turnover Then Leaving Them Unpaid at Insolvency Sees Company Director Hit with an 11 Year Disqualification

Two Yorkshire Bank, one HSBC Bank and a TSB Bounce Back Loan totalling £200,000 have all turned sour and been left unpaid at liquidation in today’s case, which, due to the reasons outlined, including massively over-estimating turnover, resulted in a Company Director who applied for all four of them for his four businesses and left them unpaid at liquidation getting an 11-year disqualification […]

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