CITIBANK, N.A. Complaints
bankCitibank, N.A. is the principal U.S. banking subsidiary of Citigroup Inc., offering retail banking, credit cards, and institutional banking services. Headquartered in New York City, it traces its roots to the City Bank of New York, chartered in 1812; the Citibank name was adopted in 1976, and Citigroup was formed in 1998 through the merger of Citicorp and Travelers Group.
388 Greenwich Street, New York, NY 10013
Writing your CITIBANK synopsis — sticking strictly to the verified facts.CITIBANK, N.A. had 391 complaints this week against an 8-week baseline average per week of 454.6, or 0.9x its own 8-week baseline, for a status label of Near baseline. Top complaint products this week were Credit card (234), Credit reporting or other personal consumer reports (63), and Checking or savings account (60), with 100.0% of complaints answered on time this week. It ranked 9 of 14 among banks by spike ratio this week, compared with an average spike ratio across all tracked banks this week of 0.9.
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 CITIBANK, N.A.'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
19.7% of CITIBANK, N.A.'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 CITIBANK, N.A.'s conduct toward these consumers — see How it works.
What customers are saying
Narrative word cloud not yet generated for CITIBANK, N.A. — 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 CITIBANK, N.A.'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 CITIBANK, N.A.'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.
- citis 145.6x
- citicards 102.02x
- citicard 102.02x
- aadvantage 95.22x
- elite 80.77x
- citi 75.28x
- warehouse 59.51x
- depot 58.91x
- migration 46.76x
- chronology 46.76x
Where complaints go: product → issue → outcome
Last 90 days, 5,791 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 | 1,604 |
| Credit card | Problem with a purchase shown on your statement | 1,193 |
| Credit reporting or other personal consumer reports | Incorrect information on your report | 584 |
| Checking or savings account | Managing an account | 567 |
| Credit card | Fees or interest | 409 |
| Credit reporting or other personal consumer reports | Other | 213 |
| Checking or savings account | Closing an account | 207 |
| Credit reporting or other personal consumer reports | Improper use of your report | 202 |
| Debt collection | Attempts to collect debt not owed | 194 |
| Debt collection | Took or threatened to take negative or legal action | 191 |
| Other | Other | 170 |
| Checking or savings account | Other | 141 |
| Debt collection | Other | 116 |
Issue → Company response
| Issue | Response | Complaints |
|---|---|---|
| Other | Other | 2,244 |
| Problem with a purchase shown on your statement | Closed with explanation | 600 |
| Problem with a purchase shown on your statement | Closed with monetary relief | 452 |
| Managing an account | Closed with explanation | 364 |
| Incorrect information on your report | Closed with explanation | 306 |
| Incorrect information on your report | Closed with non-monetary relief | 248 |
| Fees or interest | Closed with explanation | 182 |
| Fees or interest | Closed with monetary relief | 174 |
| Took or threatened to take negative or legal action | Closed with non-monetary relief | 145 |
| Managing an account | Closed with monetary relief | 129 |
| Closing an account | Closed with explanation | 128 |
| Improper use of your report | Closed with explanation | 116 |
| Attempts to collect debt not owed | Closed with non-monetary relief | 106 |
| Problem with a purchase shown on your statement | In progress | 103 |
| Improper use of your report | Closed with non-monetary relief | 78 |
| Attempts to collect debt not owed | Closed with explanation | 74 |
| Closing an account | Closed with monetary relief | 58 |
| Managing an account | Closed with non-monetary relief | 52 |
| Took or threatened to take negative or legal action | Closed with explanation | 46 |
| Problem with a purchase shown on your statement | Other | 38 |
| Fees or interest | In progress | 37 |
| Managing an account | Other | 22 |
| Incorrect information on your report | In progress | 21 |
| Fees or interest | Other | 16 |
| Closing an account | Closed with non-monetary relief | 15 |
| Incorrect information on your report | Other | 9 |
| Attempts to collect debt not owed | In progress | 8 |
| Improper use of your report | In progress | 6 |
| Closing an account | Other | 6 |
| Attempts to collect debt not owed | Other | 6 |
| Improper use of your report | Other | 2 |