The National Treasury has recommended reforms to the financial ombud system which, if implemented, would result in a simpler, consolidated system with only two instead of seven ombuds in the sector.
Ombud schemes are intended to offer consumers redress if they are treated unfairly by financial institutions, but there are a multiplicity of schemes which consumers find inefficient, complex and difficult to navigate...
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