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

CFPB complaint data Grade B 5 complaints

Smart Finance Inc dba Fishtail Financial - Debt Collector Complaint Profile

CFPB complaint profile across 3 states, reputation grade B.

Complaints by issue type

What consumers report about Smart Finance Inc dba Fishtail Financial

complaints
Source CFPB Consumer Complaint Database
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Data updated September 2026

CFPB complaint disposition

CCDB record smart-finance-inc-dba-fishtail-financial Smart Finance Inc dba Fishtail Financial

Grade B · 5 CFPB filings · 100% timely · lead issue: Attempts to collect debt not owed

  • VOL 5
  • GRADE B
  • 12MO 2
  • STATES 3
  • TIMELY 100%
  • ISSUE Attempts to collect debt n…
  • RANK #3,231
  • COMPOSE Not ranked

Nearest volume peer: Aaron Worldwide Collections Inc. (5 complaints)

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

Smart Finance Inc dba Fishtail Financial's 5 CFPB complaints sit next to Aaron Worldwide Collections Inc. 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 →

How the 5 complaints break down

Every complaint issue type on record for Smart Finance Inc dba Fishtail Financial, not just the top ones shown above.

Reputation score breakdown

B
Composite reputation score
67.7/100
Smart Finance Inc dba Fishtail Financial

Blends complaint volume, timely-response rate, dispute rate, and recent trend from the CFPB Consumer Complaint Database into one comparable 0-100 score. Not an official CFPB rating and not a finding of wrongdoing — see methodology for the exact formula.

Complaint volume B
5
Fewer complaints relative to graded peers scores higher; volume reflects footprint as much as conduct.
Timely response A
100%
Share of complaints answered inside the CFPB’s 15-day window.
Dispute rate N/A
N/A
No dispute rate reported.
Recent trend D
Rising
Whether the last 12 months of complaints are rising, stable, or falling vs the prior period.

State-heavy filing map

60.0% of Smart Finance Inc dba Fishtail Financial's CFPB filings land in Nevada

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

Dominant state
Nevada 60.0%
3 of 5 filings · 3 states touched
Spike month
2024-10 15.8%
3 filings that month · spiky (≥15% of series)
Corpus ranks
#3,231 volume
Composite not ranked (fewer than 200 complaints)
Volume rank among 5,420 collectors

How does Smart Finance Inc dba Fishtail Financial compare to its peers?

How does Smart Finance Inc dba Fishtail Financial compare? Versus a similar-volume peer and the national average (collectors with ≥50 total complaints), drawn from 10 collectors with a comparable complaint count
Smart Finance Inc dba Fishtail Financial National average
Complaints (last 12 mo)lower is better
2
1
268
Timely-response ratehigher is better
100%
100%
91%
Consumer-dispute ratelower is better
0%
0%
19%

Source: CFPB Consumer Complaint Database.

Smart Finance Inc dba Fishtail Financial's complaint volume in context

Smart Finance Inc dba Fishtail Financial vs all collectors by complaint volume

Where this collector's total CFPB complaint count sits among every tracked debt collector (volume, not a quality ranking)

5 40th percentile higher than 40% of 5,420 collectors

0–20: 3,504 collectors (65%). This entry sits in this band. 20–40: 565 collectors (10%). Above this entry. 40–60: 260 collectors (5%). Above this entry. 60–80: 163 collectors (3%). Above this entry. 80–100: 112 collectors (2%). Above this entry. 100–120: 63 collectors (1%). Above this entry. 120–140: 67 collectors (1%). Above this entry. 140–160: 53 collectors (1%). Above this entry. 160–180: 42 collectors (1%). Above this entry. 180–200: 55 collectors (1%). Above this entry. 200–220: 536 collectors (10%). Above this entry. Smart Finance Inc dba Fishtail Financial 0 220 tracked debt collectors, bucketed by value

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Source CFPB Consumer Complaint Database · September 2026

Complaint Trend (24 months)

Rising ↑
2022-02 2026-02

Issue Detail Breakdown

Issue Complaints
Attempts to collect debt not owed
5

Where do complaints against Smart Finance Inc dba Fishtail Financial come from?

Smart Finance Inc dba Fishtail Financial's own per-state count, not a national baseline.

Top states by complaints against Smart Finance Inc dba Fishtail Financial

Across 3 states with at least one filing

complaints
Source CFPB Consumer Complaint Database

Compare beyond geography

Nationwide peers by volume & timely response

Two PlainCollector-derived comparison paths for Smart Finance Inc dba Fishtail Financial: 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.

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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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