Firm + product analysis

Nationwide Building Society in Banking and Payments

A curated public analysis of Nationwide Building Society's published Financial Ombudsman decisions in Banking and Payments, including outcome context, complaint themes, precedent signals, and representative cases.

Published decisions

2,739

Decision volume in this firm-product slice

Upheld rate

23.8%

652 upheld decisions

Page summary

2,739 published FOS decisions involving Nationwide Building Society in Banking and Payments, with upheld-rate context, complaint themes, precedent signals, and representative cases.

Published decisions

2,739

Decision volume in this firm-product slice

Upheld rate

23.8%

652 upheld decisions

Latest published decision 07 Jul 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

2,739

Decision volume in this firm-product slice

Upheld rate

23.8%

652 upheld decisions

Latest active year

2026

101 decisions

Leading complaint theme

Fraud Or Scam Concern

529 tagged decisions

Nationwide Building Society in Banking and Payments

Analysis

Nationwide Building Society appears in 2,739 published decisions in Banking and Payments across this corpus. 23.8% 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 101 published decisions and an upheld rate of 19.8%.

  • 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

Analysis

Nationwide Building Society 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 Nationwide Building Society's published complaint exposure, but this page isolates just that one product line instead of blending it with the firm's wider footprint.

  • 2026: 101 decisions, 19.8% upheld
  • 2025: 680 decisions, 26.2% upheld
  • 2024: 532 decisions, 28.2% upheld
  • 2023: 422 decisions, 24.9% upheld
  • 2022: 400 decisions, 20.3% upheld

Themes, precedent context, and handling implications

Analysis

Fraud 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-623852807 Jul 2026Not upheld

Nationwide Building Society · Banking and Payments

My final decision is that I’m 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 4 August 2026.

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DRN-630770807 Jul 2026Not upheld

Nationwide Building Society · Banking and Payments

I don’t uphold this complaint. I make no further award against Nationwide Building Society.

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DRN-636575107 Jul 2026Not upheld

Nationwide Building Society · Banking and Payments

For the reasons explained, 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 4 August 2026.

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DRN-642013007 Jul 2026Not upheld

Nationwide Building Society · Banking and Payments

For the reasons stated, I do not uphold this complaint. Under the rules of the Financial Ombudsman Service, I’m required to ask Mr H to accept or reject my decision before 4 August 2026.

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DRN-642503007 Jul 2026Not upheld

Nationwide Building Society · Banking and Payments

My final decision is that what Nationwide Building Society has done to resolve the complaint is fair. It sent Miss J a cheque for £50 and apologised for its service.

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