Bank & Trust Company on Your Credit Report
In short: Bank & Trust Company is a state-chartered commercial bank that is not a member of the Federal Reserve System, supervised by the FDIC and its state regulator, operating from Litchfield, IL on a charter established in 1902. FDIC certificate 1047 records 11 FDIC-reported offices and $641 million in total assets on the 06/30/2026 call report. An account reported by Bank & Trust Company is furnished by the bank itself, so your FCRA §623 rights attach to Bank & Trust Company directly, in addition to the §611 route through Equifax, Experian and TransUnion. Information that is inaccurate, incomplete, or unverifiable can be disputed under the FCRA. Outcomes depend on what the furnisher can verify, and results vary.
Who Bank & Trust Company actually is
Charter details above are from the FDIC BankFind public database.
What makes this creditor different
Bank & Trust Company has been in continuous operation for 124 years, chartered September 1, 1902 and carried on the FDIC's books as certificate 1047. Its 06/30/2026 call report shows 11 FDIC-reported offices and $641 million in total assets, averaging roughly $58 million per office.
How Bank & Trust Company appears on your credit report
Disputing a Bank & Trust Company tradeline is not the same as disputing one from a national issuer. With $641 million in assets across 11 offices, the bank's credit reporting is handled by far fewer people than at a large card company, so a well-documented letter frequently reaches someone with authority to correct the record rather than a scripted queue. A precise written dispute naming the exact field that is wrong tends to work better here than a general statement of disagreement.
Names it may report under
Products that commonly show up
- ◆Small-business loans backed by a personal pledge from the owner, which can report on a personal file
- ◆Personal signature loans underwritten in-branch
Grounds to dispute a Bank & Trust Company entry
Each of these is a reason a Bank & Trust Company tradeline may be inaccurate or unverifiable. None of them assures removal — they are the angles worth checking on your own report.
- ◆Escrow or fee advance reported as a missed consumer payment
- ◆Charge-off reported by Bank & Trust Company after the account was settled in full
- ◆Closed Bank & Trust Company deposit-secured line still reporting as an open revolving account
- ◆Account balance or credit limit reported incorrectly
- ◆Payment reported late when it was made inside the grace period
- ◆Date of first delinquency re-aged to extend how long it can report
- ◆Account still reporting as open after it was closed, or vice versa
- ◆Duplicate tradeline for the same account after an internal transfer
- ◆Account belongs to someone else with a similar name, or is the result of identity theft
Disputing an original creditor is not the same as disputing a collector
Bank & Trust Company is an original creditor — the institution whose name was on the account when it was opened. That matters for two reasons. First, the FDCPA, which governs debt collectors, generally does not apply to a creditor collecting its own debt in its own name, so the “debt validation” request that works against a collection agency is not the right tool here. Second, as the furnisher of the tradeline, Bank & Trust Company has direct obligations under FCRA §623 to investigate a dispute you send it and to correct or delete information it cannot verify as accurate.
Dispute with the bureaus — FCRA §611
File with Equifax, Experian and TransUnion. They must generally investigate within 30 days and tell the furnisher. Free, and you can do it yourself.
Dispute with the furnisher — FCRA §623
Send Bank & Trust Company a direct written dispute. It must investigate and must not continue reporting information it knows is inaccurate. Keep copies and proof of delivery.
Bank & Trust Company questions, answered
Is Bank & Trust Company FDIC-insured, and what is its certificate number?
Yes. Bank & Trust Company holds FDIC certificate 1047. The FDIC record shows a charter established September 1, 1902, headquarters in Litchfield, IL, and 11 FDIC-reported offices with $641 million in total assets as of the 06/30/2026 call report. It is a state-chartered commercial bank that is not a member of the Federal Reserve System, supervised by the FDIC and its state regulator.
Who regulates Bank & Trust Company, and where do I escalate if a dispute fails?
Bank & Trust Company is a state-chartered commercial bank that is not a member of the Federal Reserve System, supervised by the FDIC and its state regulator, so its primary federal oversight runs through the FDIC and its state banking regulator. If a dispute with the bank and the bureaus does not resolve an inaccuracy, you can file a complaint with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and you retain a private right of action under FCRA §§616–617. Escalating does not require a third party — you can do all of it yourself at no cost.
How many credit-card complaints does the CFPB show against Bank & Trust Company?
None that can be attributed with confidence. Bank & Trust Company does not appear as a distinct company in the CFPB's credit-card complaint data for 2025 onward, which is unsurprising for a 11-office community bank rather than a national card issuer. We do not publish a figure matched by partial name, because similar names belong to unrelated companies and attributing another firm's complaints to Bank & Trust Company would be inaccurate. You can search the CFPB database yourself at consumerfinance.gov.
How long can a Bank & Trust Company charge-off stay on my credit report?
A charged-off Bank & Trust Company account can generally report for up to seven years from the date of first delinquency — the original missed payment that was never brought current, not the date Bank & Trust Company charged it off and not the date it was sold to a collector. If that date has been moved forward, the re-aging is itself a reportable FCRA inaccuracy.
What is the difference between disputing with Bank & Trust Company and disputing with a collector?
The records live in different places. Bank & Trust Company originated the account in Litchfield, so it holds the signed documents and the posting history; a collector works from a data file. That is why disputing the Bank & Trust Company tradeline directly under FCRA §623 can surface proof that a collector could not produce.
Does Bank & Trust Company report to all three credit bureaus?
Usually yes, though it is worth verifying rather than assuming. Reporting is voluntary under the FCRA, and a bank the size of Bank & Trust Company — 11 offices, $641 million in assets — may furnish to only one or two bureaus, each on its own cycle. Pull all three before concluding a Bank & Trust Company account is missing or wrong: a balance difference between bureaus is usually a timing artifact, while a difference in payment history, account status or date of first delinquency is worth disputing.
Bank & Trust Company was acquired or changed names — why does my report show two accounts?
Name changes and acquisitions routinely produce this. A converted Bank & Trust Company account can briefly appear under both the old and the new furnisher name. One tradeline should remain; the duplicate should be deleted rather than simply marked closed, because a duplicate still affects utilization and account counts. Dispute it as a duplicate and identify both versions by their last four digits and open dates — for a charter dating to 1902, core-system conversions are the usual cause.
Can I dispute Bank & Trust Company reporting myself, without paying anyone?
Yes, and at no cost. You can write Bank & Trust Company directly as the furnisher, or file through the three bureaus, or both. Outcomes depend entirely on what the Litchfield bank's records show, so be wary of anyone promising a result in advance — results vary and no outcome is assured.
What should I check first on Bank & Trust Company reporting?
Start with the date of first delinquency, the account status and the high balance or credit limit. Those three drive how long the item reports and how much it weighs. For a 124-year-old lender like Bank & Trust Company, older accounts that were converted during a core-system or charter change are the most common source of stale status codes and incorrect open dates.
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This page is general information about consumer rights, not legal advice, and does not create an attorney-client relationship. Crowned Credit is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Bank & Trust Company; company names are used only to identify the institution a consumer may see on a credit report. Crowned Credit does not promise any particular outcome; results vary by individual circumstances and by what a furnisher is able to verify. Accurate, verifiable information generally cannot be removed from a credit report. You have the right to dispute inaccurate information yourself, for free, directly with the credit bureaus and with the furnisher.
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