Year + product analysis

Unspecified complaints in 2016

A curated public analysis of Unspecified in 2016, combining annual and product-level signals from the published Financial Ombudsman decision corpus.

Page summary

1,449 published FOS decisions in Unspecified during 2016, with upheld-rate context, firm concentration, complaint themes, and representative cases.

Published decisions

1,449

Decision volume in this year-product slice

Upheld rate

31.8%

461 upheld decisions

Latest published decision 29 Feb 2016

Published decisions

1,449

Decision volume in this year-product slice

Upheld rate

31.8%

461 upheld decisions

Leading firm

Bank of Scotland Plc

118 decisions

Leading complaint theme

Delay In Claim Handling

212 tagged decisions

Unspecified in 2016

1,449 published decisions in the corpus sit in Unspecified for 2016. 31.8% 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 118 published decisions.

  • 2016: 1,449 decisions, 31.8% upheld
  • Leading complaint theme: Delay In Claim Handling
  • Leading precedent signal: Consumer Credit Act 1974

Firm concentration and issue profile

Bank of Scotland Plc, Barclays Bank Plc, Lloyds Bank PLC, and others are the firms most often associated with Unspecified complaints in 2016. This gives a much tighter public view than the standalone year or product pages alone.

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

  • Bank of Scotland Plc: 118 decisions, 11.9% upheld
  • Barclays Bank Plc: 105 decisions, 30.5% upheld
  • Lloyds Bank PLC: 87 decisions, 17.2% upheld
  • HSBC Bank plc: 75 decisions, 18.7% upheld
  • National Westminster Bank Plc: 72 decisions, 30.6% upheld

Handling implications and precedent context

The advisory layer for Unspecified points to recurring handling implications here, including review consumer credit act 1974 precedent (appears in 2.3% of cases), review section 75 cca precedent (appears in 1.9% of cases), review disp precedent (appears in 0.5% of cases), and others.

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

  • Leading complaint theme: Delay In Claim Handling

Representative cases

Recent published decisions in this slice

5 examples shown

DRN002819429 Feb 2016Not upheld

Stonebridge International Insurance Ltd

No summary extracted for this decision.

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DRN012798329 Feb 2016Not upheld

HSBC Bank plc

No summary extracted for this decision.

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DRN013415229 Feb 2016Upheld

Lloyds Bank PLC

No summary extracted for this decision.

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DRN015666629 Feb 2016Upheld

Creation Consumer Finance Ltd

No summary extracted for this decision.

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DRN033857729 Feb 2016Not upheld

Barclays Bank Plc

No summary extracted for this decision.

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