Answers About Financial Service Companies
Select from the following questions about American Express, Capital One, and financial service companies other than national banks.
What is American Express?
American Express is a financial services organization most noted for issuing credit cards. It is regulated by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). The FDIC phone number is 1-877-275-3342.
What is Capital One Financial Corporation?
Capital One Financial Corporation is a financial holding company offering a variety of consumer lending and deposit products including credit cards, auto, small business home equity, and installment loans, as well as deposit products.
Capital One, N.A. is a retail bank with locations in Louisiana, Texas and New York. Subsidiaries of the bank are Capital One Auto Finance Inc. and Capital One Home Loans. Superior Savings of New England, N.A. was merged into Capital One, N.A. on March 1, 2008.
Capital One Bank, (USA) N.A. is the credit card bank, formerly known as Capital One Bank, which was previously regulated by the Federal Reserve System (FRB).
Effective March 1, 2008, both banks are regulated by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC).
Revised 3/3/2008
What is Compass Bank?
Compass Bank is a subsidiary of Compass Bancshares, Inc., a Southwestern financial holding company that operates 415 full-service banking centers, including 164 in Texas, 89 in Alabama, 75 in Arizona, 44 in Florida, 33 in Colorado, and 10 in New Mexico. Compass is among the top 30 U.S. bank holding companies by asset size, and it ranks among the top earners of its size based on return on equity. Compass is regulated by the Federal Reserve System (FRB). The FRB phone number is 1-202-452-3693.
What is Discover Bank?
Discover Financial Services, a business unit of Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS), operates the Discover® Card brands. Discover Cards are issued by Discover Bank, a member of and regulated by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). The FDIC phone number is 1-877-275-3342.
What happened to Washington Mutual Federal Savings Bank (FSB) (WaMu)?
JPMorgan Chase announced on September 25, 2008 that it acquired all deposits, assets and certain liabilities of Washington Mutual’s banking operations from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), effective immediately.
The purchase of WAMU's assets by JPMorgan Chase was designed to be seamless to existing WAMU customers. Additional information about the transaction can be found at www.chase.com.
JPMorgan Chase is regulated by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). Consumers may contact the OCC by calling 1-800-613-6743.
If you have questions or concerns about your deposits or FDIC insurance, please call the FDIC at 1-877-275-3342.
Revised 9/26/2008Phone: 800-613-6743
TDD Number 713-658-0340
TTY: (800) 877-8339 (via a relay service)