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A PENSIONER lost £193,000 of his inheritance after giving Barclays the wrong sort code and another customer refused to return the cash. Peter Teich, 74, got one digit wrong when passing on his ...
BARCLAYS BANK refused to return a man’s missing money to him after the pensioner mistakenly input the wrong sort code, directing his £193,000 inheritance to the wrong bank account. Can this ...
Barclays disputes his version of events, which include his attempt to 'keep it safe' A dad who was mistakenly given someone's £193,000 inheritance has come forward to say he tried to give it back ...
Peter Teich, 74 from Cambridge, says he was one digit out on his sort code so when his solicitor transferred the money it went to someone else's Barclay's account ...
It didn't seem possible or right that a big bank like Barclays could not sort this out. It was an obvious mistake. When Mr Teich asked the bank to repay the £46,000 he had spent in legal fees, he ...
News; UK News; Man gets bank account sort code wrong and loses £193,000 to other Barclays customer Peter Teich, 74, from Cambridge, was due to receive the money in April following the death of ...
Pensioner lost £193k to other Barclays customer after getting sort code wrong. Peter Teich was forced to wage a court battle over the money. PA. Rebecca Speare-Cole. 7 December 2019.
He ended up having to go through a laborious legal procedure in the courts to force Barclays to reveal Mr Gray’s name, and then apply for an injunction to make the man give the £193,000 back.
Sort codes are six digit numbers which identify both the bank and the branch where an account is held. Speaking to the British Bankers Association, Bank of England director James Proudman said ...
The UK banking system is undergoing a serious overhaul that early estimates suggest will impact nearly a million customers. New ring-fencing rules mean the UK’s biggest banks need to make changes that ...
A disabled pensioner lost his £193,000 inheritance after he accidentally used the wrong sort code, of another customer who allegedly refused to give it back. Peter Teich, 74, from Cambridge, was ...
News; UK News; Barclays; Man gets bank code wrong and loses £193k to other customer who 'refuses to return it' Peter Teich, 74 from Cambridge, says he was one digit out on his sort code so when ...