What is the most common complaint against Friendly Finance Corporation?

The most common issue consumers report about Friendly Finance Corporation is "Communication tactics", specifically "Frequent or repeated calls". This is based on 14 complaints filed with the CFPB.

Are complaints against Friendly Finance Corporation increasing or decreasing?

Complaints against Friendly Finance Corporation are falling. The company received 2 complaints in the last 12 months, showing improvement over prior periods.

What is Friendly Finance Corporation's reputation grade?

Friendly Finance Corporation has a reputation grade of B (score: 65.9/100), PlainCollector's composite letter grade blending complaint volume, response timeliness, dispute rate, and complaint trend.

Does Friendly Finance Corporation respond to consumer complaints?

Friendly Finance Corporation has a 100% timely response rate to CFPB complaints. Consumers disputed the company's response in 25% of cases.

In how many states does Friendly Finance Corporation operate?

Friendly Finance Corporation has received CFPB complaints from consumers in 8 states, with the most complaints from Maryland (5 complaints).

This data comes from the CFPB Consumer Complaint Database and reflects consumer complaints, not proven violations.

Friendly Finance Corporation - Debt Collector Complaint Profile

CFPB complaint profile across 8 states, reputation grade B.

Compiled by PlainCollector

Communication tactics

5
Took or threatened to take negative or legal action

4
Attempts to collect debt not owed

1
Written notification about debt

1
False statements or representation

1
Threatened to contact someone or share information improperly

1

Data updated September 2026

CFPB complaint disposition

CCDB record friendly-finance-corporation Friendly Finance Corporation

Grade B · 14 CFPB filings · 100% timely · lead issue: Communication tactics · vol #2194 · compose #1711

VOL 14
GRADE B
12MO 2
STATES 8
TIMELY 100%
DISPUTE 25%
ISSUE Communication tactics
RANK #2,194
COMPOSE #1,711

Volume peers

Nearest volume peer: 4 Star Resolution LLC (Closed) (14 complaints)

CFPB complaint volume neighbourhood (this collector + nearest volume peers)

Friendly Finance Corporation's 14 CFPB complaints sit next to 4 Star Resolution LLC (Closed) on the volume neighbourhood; peer NAMES stay, and disposition VALUES are this collector's. Grades compare collectors to each other - a complaint is a filing, not a proven violation. How to read a complaint count →

State-heavy filing map

35.7% of Friendly Finance Corporation's CFPB filings land in Maryland

Concentration is computed from this collector's company_states rows only, not a national baseline. Corpus placement method.

Dominant state: Maryland 35.7%; 5 of 14 filings · 8 states touched
Seasonal peak: 2023-11 10.5%; 8–15% band · 2 filings
Corpus ranks: #2,194 volume; #1,711 composite; Among 5,420 volume-ranked / 5,278 scored collectors

How does Friendly Finance Corporation compare to its peers?

How does Friendly Finance Corporation compare? Versus a similar-volume peer and the national average (collectors with ≥50 total complaints), drawn from 10 collectors with a comparable complaint count

Friendly Finance Corpo… National average

Complaints (last 12 mo)lower is better

268

Timely-response ratehigher is better

100%

91%

Consumer-dispute ratelower is better

25%

19%

Source: CFPB Consumer Complaint Database.

Complaint Trend (24 months)

2020-11 2026-01

Issue Detail Breakdown

Issue	Complaints
Communication tactics	5
Took or threatened to take negative or legal action	4
Attempts to collect debt not owed	1
Written notification about debt	1
False statements or representation	1
Threatened to contact someone or share information improperly	1
Taking/threatening an illegal action	1

Where do complaints against Friendly Finance Corporation come from?

Friendly Finance Corporation's own per-state count, not a national baseline.

Maryland

5
Ohio

2
Virginia

2
Georgia

1
Illinois

1
Michigan

1
Missouri

1
New Jersey

1

Compare beyond geography

Nationwide peers by volume & timely response

Two PlainCollector-derived comparison paths for Friendly Finance Corporation: nearest all-time CFPB complaint volume and nearest CFPB timely-response rate among collectors with at least 100 logged complaints. State breakdowns above stay geographic; these neighborhoods vary by metric.

Similar filing volume

Nearest collectors by total CFPB complaints. This record: 14.

4 peers

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Data sourced from the CFPB Consumer Complaint Database. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainCollector

According to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's Consumer Complaint Database, 1,139,236 debt collection complaints are represented in the current PlainCollector snapshot. See our methodology for how PlainCollector computes each company's reputation grade from this data.

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