Capital One Bank
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| Public company | |
| Traded as | |
| Industry | Financial services |
| Founded | 1988 Richmond, Virginia, U.S. |
| Founder | Richard Fairbank, Nigel Morris |
| Headquarters | McLean, Virginia |
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Key people
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Richard Fairbank (CFO) |
| Products | Retail banking, Credit cards, Loans, Savings |
| Revenue |  US$25.501 billion (2016) |
 US$5.80 billion (2016) |
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| US$3.75 billion (2016) |
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| Total assets | US$357.033 billion (2016) |
| Total equity | US$47.514 billion (2016) |
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Number of employees
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47,300 (2016) |
| Capital ratio | 10.1% |
| Website | www |
Richard Fairbank
(Chairman, President and CEO)
Stephen S. Crawford
(Head of Finance and Corporate Development)
Capital One Financial Corporation is a bank holding company specializing in credit cards, home loans, auto loans, banking and savings products headquartered in McLean, Virginia.
Capital One is the eighth-largest commercial bank in the United States when ranked by assets and deposits. and is ranked 9th on the list of largest banks in the United States by total assets. The bank has 755 branches including 18 café style locations and 2,000 ATMs. It is ranked #112 on the Fortune 500, and conducts business in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. The company helped pioneer the mass marketing of credit cards in the 1990s, and it is one of the largest customers of the United States Postal Service due to its direct mail credit card solicitations. In 2015, it was the 5th largest credit card issuer by purchase volume, after American Express, JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, and Citigroup.
Capital One is also the 4th largest bank auto lender, with a market share of 4.2% in 2016.
In 2016, 62% of the company's revenues were from credit cards, 26% was from consumer banking, 11% was from commercial banking, and 1% was from other.
Capital One operates 3 divisions as follows:
On July 27, 1994, Richmond, Virginia-based Signet Financial Corp (now part of Wells Fargo) announced the corporate spin-off of its credit card division, OakStone Financial, naming Richard Fairbank as CEO Signet renamed the subsidiary Capital One in October 1994. The spinoff was concluded February 28, 1995, making Capital One fully independent.
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