CAPITAL ONE FINANCIAL CORPORATION Complaints
bankCapital One Financial Corporation is a bank holding company best known for credit cards, auto loans, and retail and commercial banking, headquartered in McLean, Virginia. It was founded in 1994 by Richard Fairbank and Nigel Morris, and in May 2025 it completed its acquisition of Discover Financial Services, merging Discover Bank into Capital One, National Association.
1680 Capital One Drive, McLean, VA 22102-3491
CAPITAL ONE FINANCIAL CORPORATION recorded 700 complaints this week, compared with an 8-week baseline average of 701.5 per week. This puts it at 1.0x its own 8-week baseline, a Near baseline status, with top complaint products this week of Credit card (326), Credit reporting or other personal consumer reports (198), and Checking or savings account (80). It ranked 2 of 14 among banks by spike ratio this week, above the average spike ratio of 0.8 across all tracked banks. Complaints answered on time this week were 100.0%.
Category average spike ratio this week (banks): 0.8x — see the full category ranking.
12-week complaint volume
Week ending 2026-06-10 through 2026-08-26 (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 CAPITAL ONE FINANCIAL CORPORATION'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
13.4% of CAPITAL ONE FINANCIAL CORPORATION's complaints this week were self-tagged by the consumer as coming from an Older American and/or Servicemember household (category average this week: 16.5%). This reflects who is filing complaints, not a finding about CAPITAL ONE FINANCIAL CORPORATION's conduct toward these consumers — see How it works.
What customers are saying
500 narratives, 2026-06-02 to 2026-07-01 (narrative text lags ~70 days behind the base complaint record — see How it works). Word size = relative frequency (square-root scaled, so no single word dominates).
33.4% of these narratives mention a fraud/scam-related word ("fraud", "scam", "unauthorized", "stolen", "identity theft", "phishing") — a keyword signal in consumers' own words, not a confirmed fraud finding by CFPB or CAPITAL ONE FINANCIAL CORPORATION.
Exact counts
| # | Word | Mentions |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | credit | 817 |
| 2 | card | 549 |
| 3 | dispute | 496 |
| 4 | payment | 408 |
| 5 | merchant | 324 |
| 6 | reporting | 243 |
| 7 | charge | 233 |
| 8 | funds | 230 |
| 9 | balance | 212 |
| 10 | transaction | 209 |
| 11 | refund | 208 |
| 12 | closed | 208 |
| 13 | report | 195 |
| 14 | accounts | 195 |
| 15 | check | 192 |
| 16 | evidence | 184 |
| 17 | fraud | 179 |
| 18 | customer | 177 |
| 19 | service | 177 |
| 20 | requested | 176 |
| 21 | claim | 168 |
| 22 | due | 167 |
| 23 | charges | 164 |
| 24 | payments | 160 |
| 25 | date | 156 |
| 26 | debt | 156 |
| 27 | requesting | 152 |
| 28 | paid | 151 |
| 29 | consumer | 150 |
| 30 | despite | 148 |
| 31 | full | 147 |
| 32 | address | 147 |
| 33 | money | 142 |
| 34 | response | 138 |
| 35 | denied | 135 |
| 36 | failed | 131 |
| 37 | used | 131 |
| 38 | written | 127 |
| 39 | identity | 125 |
| 40 | verification | 121 |
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 CAPITAL ONE FINANCIAL CORPORATION'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 CAPITAL ONE FINANCIAL CORPORATION'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.
- quicksilver 106.28x
- itinerary 102.02x
- determinations 68.02x
- exclusively 59.51x
- booking 45.7x
- savor 42.51x
- chronology 42.51x
- distinction 42.51x
- rebuttal 41.45x
- contradicted 39.68x
Where complaints go: product → issue → outcome
Last 90 days, 9,025 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Credit card | Other | 1,990 |
| Credit reporting or other personal consumer reports | Incorrect information on your report | 1,471 |
| Credit card | Problem with a purchase shown on your statement | 1,252 |
| Checking or savings account | Managing an account | 717 |
| Credit reporting or other personal consumer reports | Other | 570 |
| Credit reporting or other personal consumer reports | Problem with a company's investigation into an existing problem | 551 |
| Credit card | Other features, terms, or problems | 497 |
| Other | Other | 487 |
| Debt collection | Took or threatened to take negative or legal action | 427 |
| Debt collection | Attempts to collect debt not owed | 326 |
| Debt collection | Other | 310 |
| Checking or savings account | Other | 264 |
| Checking or savings account | Closing an account | 163 |
Issue → Company response
| Issue | Response | Complaints |
|---|---|---|
| Other | Other | 3,621 |
| Incorrect information on your report | Closed with explanation | 1,205 |
| Problem with a purchase shown on your statement | Closed with explanation | 898 |
| Managing an account | Closed with explanation | 614 |
| Problem with a company's investigation into an existing problem | Closed with explanation | 481 |
| Took or threatened to take negative or legal action | Closed with explanation | 389 |
| Other features, terms, or problems | Closed with explanation | 310 |
| Attempts to collect debt not owed | Closed with explanation | 234 |
| Problem with a purchase shown on your statement | Closed with monetary relief | 202 |
| Incorrect information on your report | Closed with non-monetary relief | 155 |
| Closing an account | Closed with explanation | 145 |
| Problem with a purchase shown on your statement | In progress | 116 |
| Incorrect information on your report | In progress | 109 |
| Other features, terms, or problems | Closed with monetary relief | 96 |
| Attempts to collect debt not owed | Closed with non-monetary relief | 65 |
| Other features, terms, or problems | In progress | 51 |
| Managing an account | In progress | 45 |
| Other features, terms, or problems | Other | 40 |
| Problem with a purchase shown on your statement | Other | 36 |
| Problem with a company's investigation into an existing problem | In progress | 35 |
| Problem with a company's investigation into an existing problem | Closed with non-monetary relief | 34 |
| Managing an account | Closed with non-monetary relief | 33 |
| Took or threatened to take negative or legal action | Closed with non-monetary relief | 29 |
| Attempts to collect debt not owed | In progress | 27 |
| Managing an account | Other | 25 |
| Closing an account | Closed with non-monetary relief | 11 |
| Took or threatened to take negative or legal action | In progress | 8 |
| Closing an account | Closed with monetary relief | 4 |
| Closing an account | Other | 3 |
| Incorrect information on your report | Other | 2 |
| Problem with a company's investigation into an existing problem | Other | 1 |
| Took or threatened to take negative or legal action | Other | 1 |