Financial Ombudsman Service celebrates one year anniversary in Belfast with investigator recruitment drive
11 September 2025
A year on from the opening of our Belfast hub, we announce 32 new investigator positions.
We’ve published our complaints data about individual businesses
Today we’ve published data showing how many complaints we received about individual businesses between January to June 2019.
The data shows that we received 161,390 total complaints – an average of over 6,000 a week. PPI remains the most complained about product, with over 70,000 new complaints received in the first half of 2019. On average, we upheld 29% of complaints in the consumers’ favour – and, excluding PPI, the average uphold rate is 39%. View the full data set on our business complaints page.
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