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CAPITAL ONE FINANCIAL CORPORATION Complaints

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Capital 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.

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1680 Capital One Drive, McLean, VA 22102-3491

CAPITAL ONE FINANCIAL CORPORATION had 705 complaints this week, compared with an 8-week baseline average of 707.0 per week, or 1.0x its own 8-week baseline, a status labeled Near baseline. Top complaint products this week were Credit card (310), Credit reporting or other personal consumer reports (196), and Checking or savings account (113). Complaints answered on time this week were 100.0%. It ranked 6 of 14 among banks by spike ratio, while the average spike ratio across all tracked banks this week was 0.9.

This week
705
8-week baseline avg/wk
707.0
Spike ratio
1.0x
Rank vs. category peers
6 of 14

Category average spike ratio this week (banks): 0.9x — see the full category ranking.

12-week complaint volume

Week 1 of 12: 692 Week 2 of 12: 702 Week 3 of 12: 735 Week 4 of 12: 640 Week 5 of 12: 677 Week 6 of 12: 770 Week 7 of 12: 694 Week 8 of 12: 740 Week 9 of 12: 686 Week 10 of 12: 706 Week 11 of 12: 735 Week 12 of 12: 705

Week ending 2026-06-15 through 2026-08-31 (14-day lag buffer applied).

Spike ratio across tracked runs

Run 1 of 9: 1.0x Run 2 of 9: 0.9x Run 3 of 9: 1.0x Run 4 of 9: 1.1x Run 5 of 9: 1.0x Run 6 of 9: 1.0x Run 7 of 9: 1.0x Run 8 of 9: 1.0x Run 9 of 9: 0.3x

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

Answered on time
100.0%
Public response rate
—

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

13.0% 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: 19.6%). 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

Narrative word cloud not yet generated for CAPITAL ONE FINANCIAL CORPORATION — 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 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.

Where complaints go: product → issue → outcome

Last 90 days, 9,038 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

ProductIssueComplaints
Credit cardOther1,998
Credit reporting or other personal consumer reportsIncorrect information on your report1,466
Credit cardProblem with a purchase shown on your statement1,261
Checking or savings accountManaging an account742
Credit reporting or other personal consumer reportsOther567
Credit reporting or other personal consumer reportsProblem with a company's investigation into an existing problem537
Credit cardOther features, terms, or problems499
OtherOther484
Debt collectionTook or threatened to take negative or legal action409
Debt collectionAttempts to collect debt not owed325
Debt collectionOther306
Checking or savings accountOther278
Checking or savings accountClosing an account166

Issue → Company response

IssueResponseComplaints
OtherOther3,633
Incorrect information on your reportClosed with explanation1,199
Problem with a purchase shown on your statementClosed with explanation917
Managing an accountClosed with explanation642
Problem with a company's investigation into an existing problemClosed with explanation465
Took or threatened to take negative or legal actionClosed with explanation370
Other features, terms, or problemsClosed with explanation310
Attempts to collect debt not owedClosed with explanation233
Problem with a purchase shown on your statementClosed with monetary relief204
Incorrect information on your reportClosed with non-monetary relief156
Closing an accountClosed with explanation146
Incorrect information on your reportIn progress108
Problem with a purchase shown on your statementIn progress105
Other features, terms, or problemsClosed with monetary relief98
Attempts to collect debt not owedClosed with non-monetary relief62
Other features, terms, or problemsIn progress47
Other features, terms, or problemsOther44
Managing an accountIn progress42
Problem with a company's investigation into an existing problemIn progress40
Problem with a purchase shown on your statementOther35
Managing an accountClosed with non-monetary relief33
Problem with a company's investigation into an existing problemClosed with non-monetary relief31
Attempts to collect debt not owedIn progress30
Took or threatened to take negative or legal actionClosed with non-monetary relief29
Managing an accountOther25
Closing an accountClosed with non-monetary relief11
Took or threatened to take negative or legal actionIn progress9
Closing an accountIn progress5
Closing an accountOther4
Incorrect information on your reportOther3
Problem with a company's investigation into an existing problemOther1
Took or threatened to take negative or legal actionOther1