What is the most common complaint against Pacific Western Bank?

The most common issue consumers report about Pacific Western Bank is "Took or threatened to take negative or legal action", specifically "Seized or attempted to seize your property". This is based on 1 complaints filed with the CFPB.

Are complaints against Pacific Western Bank increasing or decreasing?

Complaints against Pacific Western Bank are falling. The company received 0 complaints in the last 12 months, showing improvement over prior periods.

What is Pacific Western Bank's reputation grade?

Pacific Western Bank has a reputation grade of A (score: 80.5/100), PlainCollector's composite letter grade blending complaint volume, response timeliness, dispute rate, and complaint trend.

Does Pacific Western Bank respond to consumer complaints?

Pacific Western Bank has a 100% timely response rate to CFPB complaints.

In how many states does Pacific Western Bank operate?

Pacific Western Bank has received CFPB complaints from consumers in 1 states, with the most complaints from California (1 complaints).

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

Pacific Western Bank - Debt Collector Complaint Profile

CFPB complaint profile across 1 states, reputation grade A.

Compiled by PlainCollector

Took or threatened to take negative or legal action

1

Data updated September 2026

CFPB complaint disposition

CCDB record pacific-western-bank Pacific Western Bank

Grade A · 1 CFPB filings · 100% timely · lead issue: Took or threatened to take negative or legal action · vol #5105 · compose #576

VOL 1
GRADE A
12MO 0
STATES 1
TIMELY 100%
ISSUE Took or threatened to take…
RANK #5,105
COMPOSE #576

Volume peers

Nearest volume peer: 245 Holdings LLC (1 complaints)

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

Pacific Western Bank's 1 CFPB complaints sit next to 245 Holdings LLC 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

100.0% of Pacific Western Bank's CFPB filings land in California

High volume does not equal a clean composite: Pacific Western Bank is volume #5,105 but composite #576, while California dominates the geography. Corpus placement method.

Dominant state: California 100.0%; 1 of 1 filings · 1 states touched
Spike month: 2019-04 100.0%; 1 filings that month · spiky (≥15% of series)
Divergent corpus ranks: #5,105 volume; #576 composite; Cleanest-composite ladder is 4,529 places better than volume

How does Pacific Western Bank compare to its peers?

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

PACIFIC WESTERN BANK National average

Complaints (last 12 mo)lower is better

268

Timely-response ratehigher is better

100%

91%

Consumer-dispute ratelower is better

19%

Source: CFPB Consumer Complaint Database.

Complaint Trend (24 months)

2019-04 2019-04

Issue Detail Breakdown

Issue	Complaints
Took or threatened to take negative or legal action	1

Where do complaints against Pacific Western Bank come from?

Pacific Western Bank's own per-state count, not a national baseline.

California

1

Compare beyond geography

Nationwide peers by volume & timely response

Two PlainCollector-derived comparison paths for Pacific Western Bank: 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: 1.

4 peers

Know your rights before responding to Pacific Western Bank: FDCPA rights guide · debt validation letter · rights library.

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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