Bank Balance Transfer Sent to Wrong Credit Card
A Barclays customer had a balance transfer applied to the wrong credit card account, with the bank refusing to correct it for weeks. Single consumer complaint about bank processing error. No software product addresses individual bank operational failures of this type.
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