What is the most common complaint against Western Alliance Bancorporation?

The most common issue consumers report about Western Alliance Bancorporation is "Took or threatened to take negative or legal action", specifically "Threatened or suggested your credit would be damaged". This is based on 5 complaints filed with the CFPB.

Are complaints against Western Alliance Bancorporation increasing or decreasing?

Complaints against Western Alliance Bancorporation have been stable. The company received 1 complaints in the last 12 months.

What is Western Alliance Bancorporation's reputation grade?

Western Alliance Bancorporation has a reputation grade of A (score: 79.9/100), PlainCollector's composite letter grade blending complaint volume, response timeliness, dispute rate, and complaint trend.

Does Western Alliance Bancorporation respond to consumer complaints?

Western Alliance Bancorporation has a 100% timely response rate to CFPB complaints. Consumers disputed the company's response in 0% of cases.

In how many states does Western Alliance Bancorporation operate?

Western Alliance Bancorporation has received CFPB complaints from consumers in 4 states, with the most complaints from California (2 complaints).

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

Western Alliance Bancorporation - Debt Collector Complaint Profile

CFPB complaint profile across 4 states, reputation grade A.

Compiled by PlainCollector

Took or threatened to take negative or legal action

3
Communication tactics

1
Disclosure verification of debt

1

Data updated September 2026

CFPB complaint disposition

CCDB record western-alliance-bancorporation Western Alliance Bancorporation

Grade A · 5 CFPB filings · 100% timely · lead issue: Took or threatened to take negative or legal action · vol #3260 · compose #728

VOL 5
GRADE A
12MO 1
STATES 4
TIMELY 100%
DISPUTE 0%
ISSUE Took or threatened to take…
RANK #3,260
COMPOSE #728

Volume peers

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

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

Western Alliance Bancorporation'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 →

State-heavy filing map

40.0% of Western Alliance Bancorporation's CFPB filings land in California

High volume does not equal a clean composite: Western Alliance Bancorporation is volume #3,260 but composite #728, while California dominates the geography. Corpus placement method.

Dominant state: California 40.0%; 2 of 5 filings · 4 states touched
Spike month: 2025-11 100.0%; 1 filings that month · spiky (≥15% of series)
Divergent corpus ranks: #3,260 volume; #728 composite; Cleanest-composite ladder is 2,532 places better than volume

How does Western Alliance Bancorporation compare to its peers?

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

WESTERN ALLIANCE BANCO… National average

Complaints (last 12 mo)lower is better

268

Timely-response ratehigher is better

100%

40%

91%

Consumer-dispute ratelower is better

19%

Source: CFPB Consumer Complaint Database.

Complaint Trend (24 months)

2025-11 2025-11

Issue Detail Breakdown

Issue	Complaints
Took or threatened to take negative or legal action	3
Communication tactics	1
Disclosure verification of debt	1

Where do complaints against Western Alliance Bancorporation come from?

Western Alliance Bancorporation's own per-state count, not a national baseline.

California

2
Georgia

1
North Carolina

1
Virginia

1

Compare beyond geography

Nationwide peers by volume & timely response

Two PlainCollector-derived comparison paths for Western Alliance Bancorporation: 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: 5.

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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