HSBC Approved a Customer’s Bounce Back Loan Then Decline It Cruelly Stating He Had the “Wrong Type of Account” Ombudsman Does Not Uphold the Complaint Even Though He States the Initially Approved BBL Probably Caused Subsequent Declines
This is a shocking case, for as you will see an HSBC customer was initially approved a Bounce Back Loan but then it was declined, an Ombudsman does not uphold the complaint or allow compensation stating that the customer had a few weeks to apply elsewhere before the scheme ended. When no bank in the scheme was accepting new customers, this outcome could lead many people to suspect that Ben the Ombudsman does not have any first-hand experience of the way the BBL scheme was run. […]