Published decisions
1,353
Decision volume in this firm-product slice
Firm + product analysis
Clydesdale Bank Plc in Banking and Payments
A curated public analysis of Clydesdale Bank Plc's published Financial Ombudsman decisions in Banking and Payments, including outcome context, complaint themes, precedent signals, and representative cases.
Upheld rate
30.0%
406 upheld decisions
Page summary
1,353 published FOS decisions involving Clydesdale Bank Plc in Banking and Payments, with upheld-rate context, complaint themes, precedent signals, and representative cases.
Published decisions
1,353
Decision volume in this firm-product slice
Upheld rate
30.0%
406 upheld decisions
Latest published decision 21 Apr 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
1,353
Decision volume in this firm-product slice
Upheld rate
30.0%
406 upheld decisions
Latest active year
2026
45 decisions
Leading complaint theme
Fraud Or Scam Concern
183 tagged decisions
Clydesdale Bank Plc in Banking and Payments
AnalysisClydesdale Bank Plc appears in 1,353 published decisions in Banking and Payments across this corpus. 30.0% of those decisions were upheld, making this one of the strongest public firm-product slices available for search and research.
The latest year represented in this slice is 2026, with 45 published decisions and an upheld rate of 28.9%.
- Leading complaint theme: Fraud Or Scam Concern
- Leading precedent signal: Consumer Credit Act 1974
- Advisor uphold-risk signal for Banking and Payments: low
How the slice behaves over time
AnalysisClydesdale Bank Plc has a multi-year published decision trail in Banking and Payments, which makes it possible to judge whether complaint exposure has been persistent or concentrated into a smaller set of years.
Banking and Payments remains a meaningful part of Clydesdale Bank Plc's published complaint exposure, but this page isolates just that one product line instead of blending it with the firm's wider footprint.
- 2026: 45 decisions, 28.9% upheld
- 2025: 354 decisions, 25.1% upheld
- 2024: 270 decisions, 40.4% upheld
- 2023: 279 decisions, 36.2% upheld
- 2022: 187 decisions, 27.8% upheld
Themes, precedent context, and handling implications
AnalysisFraud Or Scam Concern is the clearest complaint-theme signal in this firm-product slice, which helps explain what tends to drive published ombudsman decisions here.
The product advisory layer also points to recurring handling implications, including review consumer credit act 1974 precedent (appears in 2.7% of cases), review section 75 cca precedent (appears in 1.9% of cases), review section 140a cca precedent (appears in 0.4% of cases), and others.
- Second complaint theme: Delay In Claim Handling
Representative cases
Recent published decisions in this slice
5 examples shown
DRN-624390421 Apr 2026Not upheld
Clydesdale Bank Plc · Banking and Payments
My final decision is that I don’t uphold this complaint. Under the rules of the Financial Ombudsman Service, I’m required to ask Mrs S to accept or reject my decision before 19 May 2026.
View source decisionDRN-624587521 Apr 2026Not upheld
Clydesdale Bank Plc · Banking and Payments
I don’t uphold this complaint against Clydesdale Bank Plc trading as Virgin Money. Under the rules of the Financial Ombudsman Service, I’m required to ask Mr C to accept or reject my decision before 19 May 2026.
View source decisionDRN-630157821 Apr 2026Not upheld
Clydesdale Bank Plc · Banking and Payments
I am not upholding this complaint Under the rules of the Financial Ombudsman Service, I’m required to ask Mr A to accept or reject my decision before 19 May 2026. Sienna Mahboobani Ombudsman
View source decisionDRN-630539321 Apr 2026Upheld
Clydesdale Bank Plc · Banking and Payments
For the reasons explained above, it is my final decision that I uphold this complaint and Clydesdale Bank Plc, trading as Virgin Money, must put things right as explained above. Under the rules of the Financial Ombudsman Service, I’m required to ask Miss N to accept or reject my decision before 19 May 2026.
View source decisionDRN-626115420 Apr 2026Not upheld
Clydesdale Bank Plc · Banking and Payments
For the reasons outlined above, my final decision is that I don’t uphold this complaint. Under the rules of the Financial Ombudsman Service, I’m required to ask Mr M to accept or reject my decision before 18 May 2026.
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