Year + product analysis

Payment protection insurance (PPI) complaints in 2014

A curated public analysis of Payment protection insurance (PPI) in 2014, combining annual and product-level signals from the published Financial Ombudsman decision corpus.

Page summary

16,981 published FOS decisions in Payment protection insurance (PPI) during 2014, with upheld-rate context, firm concentration, complaint themes, and representative cases.

Published decisions

16,981

Decision volume in this year-product slice

Upheld rate

19.0%

3,221 upheld decisions

Latest published decision 29 Dec 2014

Published decisions

16,981

Decision volume in this year-product slice

Upheld rate

19.0%

3,221 upheld decisions

Leading firm

Bank of Scotland Plc

3,384 decisions

Leading complaint theme

Affordability Assessment Failure

3,094 tagged decisions

Payment protection insurance (PPI) in 2014

16,981 published decisions in the corpus sit in Payment protection insurance (PPI) for 2014. 19.0% of those decisions were upheld, which makes this a strong public cross-section for understanding how one product behaved in one specific year.

Bank of Scotland Plc is the most visible firm inside this year-product slice, with 3,384 published decisions.

  • 2014: 16,981 decisions, 19.0% upheld
  • Leading complaint theme: Affordability Assessment Failure
  • Leading precedent signal: Disp

Firm concentration and issue profile

Bank of Scotland Plc, Capital One (Europe) plc, Barclays Bank Plc, and others are the firms most often associated with Payment protection insurance (PPI) complaints in 2014. This gives a much tighter public view than the standalone year or product pages alone.

affordability assessment failure, communication failure, delay in claim handling, and others are the strongest complaint-theme signals in this year-product combination.

  • Bank of Scotland Plc: 3,384 decisions, 3.4% upheld
  • Capital One (Europe) plc: 2,228 decisions, 42.2% upheld
  • Barclays Bank Plc: 1,795 decisions, 10.3% upheld
  • Nationwide Building Society: 1,537 decisions, 12.3% upheld
  • Lloyds Bank PLC: 990 decisions, 10.9% upheld

Handling implications and precedent context

The advisory layer for Payment protection insurance (PPI) points to recurring handling implications here, including review consumer credit act 1974 precedent (appears in 5.2% of cases), review disp precedent (appears in 5.1% of cases), review icobs precedent (appears in 4.6% of cases), and others.

There is no strong “what loses” signal exposed for this product at the current advisory granularity.

  • Leading complaint theme: Affordability Assessment Failure

Representative cases

Recent published decisions in this slice

5 examples shown

DRN047705429 Dec 2014Not upheld

Bank of Scotland Plc · Payment protection insurance (PPI)

Mr and Mrs A complain that Bank of Scotland plc (trading as “Halifax”) mis-sold them a monthly premium payment protection insurance (“PPI) policy alongside a secured loan in 2002. The policy included cover for accident, sickness and unemployment. It also included life cover. Under the te... (2 pages)

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DRN079067929 Dec 2014Not upheld

Bank of Scotland Plc · Payment protection insurance (PPI)

Mr and Mrs Z say Bank of Scotland plc (trading as “Halifax”) mis-sold them a payment protection insurance (PPI) policy.backgroundMr and Mrs Z bought the policy in 1997 at the same time as taking out a loan in a Halifax branch. The loan included an amount to pay for the policy. The po... (2 pages)

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DRN120023129 Dec 2014Not upheld

Bank of Scotland Plc · Payment protection insurance (PPI)

Mr and Mrs Q, through their representative claims management company, complain that Bank of Scotland Plc (BoS) mis-sold them regular premium payment protection insurance (PPI) with a long term secured personal loan.backgroundMr and Mrs Q took out a personal loan in 2002 during a meetin... (2 pages)

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DRN125596529 Dec 2014Not upheld

Lloyds Bank PLC · Payment protection insurance (PPI)

Mr and Mrs A say Lloyds Bank PLC mis-sold them a mortgage payment protection insurance (MPPI) policy.backgroundThis complaint is about a monthly premium MPPI policy taken out with a mortgage in 2003. Our adjudicator didn’t uphold the complaint. Mr and Mrs A disagreed with the adjudica... (2 pages)

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DRN137587229 Dec 2014Upheld

National Westminster Bank Plc · Payment protection insurance (PPI)

Mr C complains that in, September 1997, National Westminster Bank Plc (NatWest) mis-sold him a payment protection insurance (PPI) policy for his credit card.backgroundThe background to this complaint and my initial conclusions are set out in my provisional decision of 14 November 2014. ... (2 pages)

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