BANK OF AMERICA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Complaints
bankBank of America, National Association is a national bank and one of the largest banking institutions in the United States, headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, at the Bank of America Corporate Center, offering consumer, commercial, wealth management, and investment banking services. It traces its roots to the Bank of Italy, founded in San Francisco in 1904 by Amadeo Giannini, and took the Bank of America name after NationsBank's 1998 merger with the original BankAmerica Corporation.
Bank of America Corporate Center, 100 North Tryon Street, Charlotte, NC 28255
BANK OF AMERICA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION had 472 complaints this week, compared with an 8-week baseline average of 457.8 per week, or 1.0x its own baseline, a standing labeled Near baseline. Top complaint products this week were Checking or savings account (218), Credit card (139), and Credit reporting or other personal consumer reports (63). Complaints answered on time this week were 100.0%, while 2.4% across 186198 total complaints ever filed received an untimely response. It ranked 5 of 14 among banks by spike ratio this week, compared with an average spike ratio of 0.9 across all tracked banks.
Category average spike ratio this week (banks): 0.9x — see the full category ranking.
12-week complaint volume
Week ending 2026-06-15 through 2026-08-31 (14-day lag buffer applied).
Spike ratio across tracked runs
9 recorded runs, 2026-07-14 through 2026-09-08 — this week vs. that run's own 8-week baseline each time (same spike-ratio math as above, tracked over separate runs of this site's data pipeline rather than within a single build). See How it works.
Top complaint products this week
Responsiveness & resolution this week
How BANK OF AMERICA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION's complaints were resolved this week:
"Public response rate" counts only complaints where CFPB asked the company to respond publicly, and measures how often it said something substantive instead of declining to comment — see How it works.
Complaints from Older American / Servicemember consumers
14.6% of BANK OF AMERICA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION's complaints this week were self-tagged by the consumer as coming from an Older American and/or Servicemember household (category average this week: 19.6%). This reflects who is filing complaints, not a finding about BANK OF AMERICA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION's conduct toward these consumers — see How it works.
What customers are saying
Narrative word cloud not yet generated for BANK OF AMERICA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION — currently built for the highest-volume companies only. Why.
Consumer language tone
A sample of 20 of 20 recent narratives, classified by tone. This reflects language patterns in what consumers wrote — it is not a finding about BANK OF AMERICA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION's conduct, not a clinical or validated sentiment measurement, and not a company ranking (see How it works).
Distinctive complaint themes
Narrative terms that come up disproportionately more often in BANK OF AMERICA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION's complaints than across the CFPB database as a whole (score = how many times more common here than the industry-wide baseline — see Trends & records for that baseline). A word-frequency signal from a sample of 3,000 narratives, not a finding about the cause of any complaint.
- impersonation 93.52x
- boas 55.26x
- determinations 55.26x
- reconsideration 51.01x
- chronology 46.76x
- nbank 42.51x
- sophisticated 41.09x
- impersonated 40.38x
- bofa 36.93x
- boa 35.34x
Where complaints go: product → issue → outcome
Last 90 days, 5,935 complaints. Two stages shown separately (not joined into one three-way table) because the issue→outcome counts are already combined across every product sharing that issue — see How it works.
Product → Issue
| Product | Issue | Complaints |
|---|---|---|
| Checking or savings account | Managing an account | 1,418 |
| Credit card | Problem with a purchase shown on your statement | 768 |
| Credit card | Other | 626 |
| Other | Other | 591 |
| Credit reporting or other personal consumer reports | Incorrect information on your report | 581 |
| Checking or savings account | Other | 527 |
| Checking or savings account | Closing an account | 394 |
| Credit reporting or other personal consumer reports | Other | 232 |
| Credit reporting or other personal consumer reports | Improper use of your report | 201 |
| Debt collection | Took or threatened to take negative or legal action | 200 |
| Credit card | Other features, terms, or problems | 185 |
| Debt collection | Attempts to collect debt not owed | 148 |
| Debt collection | Other | 64 |
Issue → Company response
| Issue | Response | Complaints |
|---|---|---|
| Other | Other | 2,040 |
| Managing an account | Closed with explanation | 538 |
| Managing an account | In progress | 517 |
| Incorrect information on your report | Closed with explanation | 396 |
| Problem with a purchase shown on your statement | In progress | 368 |
| Managing an account | Closed with monetary relief | 328 |
| Problem with a purchase shown on your statement | Closed with monetary relief | 213 |
| Took or threatened to take negative or legal action | Closed with explanation | 182 |
| Problem with a purchase shown on your statement | Closed with explanation | 181 |
| Incorrect information on your report | In progress | 157 |
| Closing an account | In progress | 147 |
| Closing an account | Closed with monetary relief | 135 |
| Closing an account | Closed with explanation | 107 |
| Improper use of your report | Closed with explanation | 107 |
| Attempts to collect debt not owed | Closed with explanation | 100 |
| Other features, terms, or problems | Closed with explanation | 89 |
| Improper use of your report | In progress | 78 |
| Other features, terms, or problems | In progress | 61 |
| Attempts to collect debt not owed | In progress | 42 |
| Managing an account | Other | 35 |
| Other features, terms, or problems | Closed with monetary relief | 30 |
| Incorrect information on your report | Closed with non-monetary relief | 20 |
| Improper use of your report | Closed with non-monetary relief | 15 |
| Took or threatened to take negative or legal action | In progress | 15 |
| Incorrect information on your report | Other | 8 |
| Problem with a purchase shown on your statement | Other | 6 |
| Closing an account | Other | 5 |
| Other features, terms, or problems | Other | 5 |
| Attempts to collect debt not owed | Closed with non-monetary relief | 5 |
| Took or threatened to take negative or legal action | Closed with non-monetary relief | 3 |
| Improper use of your report | Other | 1 |
| Attempts to collect debt not owed | Other | 1 |