IBAS - Independent Banking Advisory Service 

IBAS Benefits

IBAS Site Map

IBAS Testimonials

UK Business Banking Account Dispute Investigations

Director's Bank Personal Guarantee

Frequent Questions

SMEs Business Banking Dispute Complaints and Financial Ombudsman Service

Updated: 21st February 2024

If you are having a UK Business banking Dispute and the bank customer relations department is dealing with your complaint -

The Bank will expect their Bank Customer Relations Department to minimize your complaint and/or find a way to destroy it.

The Bank Customer Relations Department will have already requested your information and evidence of your dispute

You may have received The Bank Final Letter - which is written deliberately to show the FOS that your complaint is not justified

The Bank knows the FOS will take notice of their Final Letter as being accurate and legally correct

What can you do?

These editorials may assist UK business customers thinking of making a complaint to the FOS:

Cases submitted to the FOS which do not properly target the correct complaint/s are thrown out by the FOS or they find in favour of the bank because the bank has carefully prepared their response with the aid of their legal team.

Business banking customers making a business banking complaint to the FOS are distinctly at a disadvantage if they do not obtain advice on how their complaint should be focused.

But, IBAS aim is to resolve a Business Banking Debt Claims and also advise and protect the business customer's assets

Contact IBAS

Nic Cicutti: FOS needs to clean up its act

&

FOS slammed as unfit for purpose by think tank

Also

UK.Trustpilot results on Financial Ombudsman Service Results

We have seen many business banking disputes and complaints which do not get past the first hurdle at the FOS because if there is a way to reject a business banking dispute claim the FOS will reject it - usually by following the Bank Final Letter content

It is then very difficult if not impossible to resurrect your complaint with the FOS.

It is then also very easy for the Bank to not do anything at all - because they rely on the FOS rejecting your complaint

Take the stress and personal animosity out of your banking dispute by showing us what you believe has happened and why you think the bank is wrong before you submit your complaint to the bank -

at that time your complaint can be reworked or rewritten and we do not charge to look at what you initially provide us.

If we suggest membership and then only if it is appropriate - we will tell you the cost but we will provide our initial input without any charge

Back to Home Page

It is also important to know that the FOS will share your file information with the Bank

However, they will not share Bank information with you if it is deemed by the bank to be sensitive

That means the Bank obtains information quickly from the customer's complaint file which might destroy the customer claims and also possibly any legal defence to the claim if it is based on debt

- but bank information will be very well protected

IBAS has featured on BBC TV, BBC 1999 Testimonial for IBAS BBC TV News, ITV News, Meridian TV and Sky TV News since 1992 and contributed banking editorials and business banking articles for the Sunday Times, Times, Daily Mail, Daily Express, Telegraph and Daily Mirror.