29 Sep 2025

Financial Ombudsman sees spate of complaints about guarantors

From Nine To Noon, 9:20 am on 29 September 2025
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The Financial Ombudsman says her office has received a recent spate of complaints from people who've been added as a guarantor for a loan without their knowledge.

Susan Taylor says the cases have all been with different lenders, and involve those lenders accepting the electronic signature of someone supposedly agreeing to being a guarantor, when they haven't.

Ms Taylor says The Financial Services Complaints office has also received more complaints about business loans than ever before.