Firm analysis

Clydesdale Bank Plc complaint analysis

A public analysis page covering published Financial Ombudsman decisions involving Clydesdale Bank Plc, including outcome context, product mix, complaint themes, and representative cases.

Published decisions

3,832

Firm-specific decision volume in the public corpus

Upheld rate

27.0%

1,036 upheld decisions

Page summary

3,832 published decisions involving Clydesdale Bank Plc, with product mix, upheld-rate context, complaint themes, precedent signals, and representative cases.

Published decisions

3,832

Firm-specific decision volume in the public corpus

Upheld rate

27.0%

1,036 upheld decisions

Latest published decision 15 Sept 2026

How to use this page

Read the metrics first, then the ranked view.

The top-line cards show scale and outcome context. The ranked view and representative decisions show where the slice is concentrated and what the published decision set actually looks like.

Published decisions

3,832

Firm-specific decision volume in the public corpus

Upheld rate

27.0%

1,036 upheld decisions

Leading product

Banking and Payments

1,402 decisions

Leading complaint theme

Delay In Claim Handling

349 tagged decisions

Clydesdale Bank Plc at a glance

Analysis

Clydesdale Bank Plc appears in 3,832 published decisions in this corpus. 27.0% of those decisions were upheld, which gives a public view of how often complaints involving this firm ended in a fully upheld outcome in the final published set.

Banking and Payments is the firm’s clearest product exposure in the published decisions, with 1,402 decisions and an upheld rate of 29.8%.

  • Latest active year in the published data: 2026 (101 decisions)
  • Most common complaint theme: Delay In Claim Handling
  • Most common precedent signal: Consumer Credit Act 1974

Volume and outcome trajectory

Analysis

Clydesdale Bank Plc's decision trail runs from 2013 to 2026. That range gives enough public history to see whether complaint exposure has been broad-based or concentrated into certain years.

In the latest year represented here, Clydesdale Bank Plc appeared in 101 published decisions with an upheld rate of 26.7%.

  • 2026: 101 decisions, 26.7% upheld
  • 2025: 389 decisions, 26.2% upheld
  • 2024: 330 decisions, 36.1% upheld
  • 2023: 328 decisions, 35.7% upheld
  • 2022: 238 decisions, 29.4% upheld

Themes, products, and precedent signals

Analysis

Delay In Claim Handling is the strongest complaint-theme signal tied to Clydesdale Bank Plc in the published decisions. In this corpus, those themes are the most stable public proxy for complaint “type”.

Consumer Credit Act 1974, Section 75 Cca, Section 140a Cca, and others are the most visible precedent signals in the firm’s published decisions. That gives extra context on the rules and fairness arguments appearing most often around the firm.

  • Banking and Payments: 1,402 decisions
  • Second complaint theme: Affordability Assessment Failure
  • Second precedent signal: Section 75 Cca

Representative cases

Recent published decisions in this slice

5 examples shown

DRN-656818515 Sept 2026Not upheld

Clydesdale Bank Plc · Banking and Payments

My decision is that I do not uphold this complaint. Virgin Money should pay Mx A the additional £50 it offered, if it has not already done so.

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DRN-626907314 Sept 2026Not upheld

Clydesdale Bank Plc · Banking and Payments

My final decision is that I’m not upholding Mrs E’s complaint about Clydesdale Bank Plc trading as Virgin Money. Under the rules of the Financial Ombudsman Service, I’m required to ask Mrs E to accept or reject my decision before 12 October 2026.

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DRN-660810814 Sept 2026Not upheld

Clydesdale Bank Plc · Banking and Payments

My final decision is that I partially uphold this complaint. Under the rules of the Financial Ombudsman Service, I’m required to ask Mr G to accept or reject my decision before 12 October 2026.

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DRN-630246811 Sept 2026Not upheld

Clydesdale Bank Plc · Banking and Payments

My final decision is that I do not uphold this complaint against Clydesdale Bank Plc trading as Virgin Money. Under the rules of the Financial Ombudsman Service, I’m required to ask the estate of Mr J Snr to accept or reject my decision before 9 October 2026.

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DRN-651070711 Sept 2026Not upheld

Clydesdale Bank Plc · Banking and Payments

For the reasons set out above, I do not uphold the complaint against Clydesdale Bank Plc trading as Virgin Money. It has nothing further to do on this matter.

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