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Newburyport Five Cents Savings Bank on Your Credit Report

In short: Newburyport Five Cents Savings Bank is a state-chartered savings institution supervised by the FDIC and its state regulator, operating from Newburyport, Massachusetts. FDIC records place the charter's origin at April 1, 1854 and assign it certificate 90251. The 06/30/2026 call report lists $1.57 billion in assets across 12 FDIC-reported offices. Because Newburyport Five Cents Savings Bank originates its own paper rather than buying it, the documentation behind any tradeline sits with the bank — which is what makes a §623 direct dispute worth filing here. 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 Newburyport Five Cents Savings Bank actually is

FDIC certificate#90251
Charter locationNewburyport, MA
Charter established04/01/1854

Charter details above are from the FDIC BankFind public database.

What makes this creditor different

Newburyport Five Cents Savings Bank appears in FDIC BankFind as certificate 90251, headquartered Newburyport, Massachusetts, chartered April 1, 1854, with 12 FDIC-reported offices and $1.57 billion in assets.

How Newburyport Five Cents Savings Bank appears on your credit report

Because Newburyport Five Cents Savings Bank originated the account, the signed application and the full posting history are held by the bank and not by a third party. A §623 direct dispute to Newburyport Five Cents Savings Bank therefore reaches the people who hold the records, while the parallel §611 dispute puts the bureaus on notice. Across 12 offices in Massachusetts, the review is handled in-house. No outcome is promised; the paperwork decides the result.

Names it may report under

Newburyport Five Cents Savings Bank

Products that commonly show up

  • ◆Consumer lines of credit opened at the 12 Massachusetts banking offices of Newburyport Five Cents Savings Bank
  • ◆Home-equity lines and residential mortgages originated near Newburyport
  • ◆Vehicle and equipment paper financed directly through Newburyport Five Cents Savings Bank

Grounds to dispute a Newburyport Five Cents Savings Bank entry

Each of these is a reason a Newburyport Five Cents Savings Bank tradeline may be inaccurate or unverifiable. None of them assures removal — they are the angles worth checking on your own report.

  • ◆Deferment or modification agreed with Newburyport Five Cents Savings Bank not reflected in the monthly status
  • ◆Newburyport Five Cents Savings Bank account reported in the name of a co-signer who never signed
  • ◆Charge-off reported by Newburyport Five Cents Savings Bank without the underlying itemization on file
  • ◆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

Newburyport Five Cents Savings Bank 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, Newburyport Five Cents Savings Bank 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 Newburyport Five Cents Savings Bank a direct written dispute. It must investigate and must not continue reporting information it knows is inaccurate. Keep copies and proof of delivery.

Newburyport Five Cents Savings Bank questions, answered

Is Newburyport Five Cents Savings Bank FDIC-insured, and under what certificate?

It is insured, and certificate 90251 is the number to quote. The FDIC lists a state-chartered savings institution supervised by the FDIC and its state regulator, headquartered Newburyport, MA, chartered April 1, 1854, reporting $1.57 billion and 12 offices as of 06/30/2026.

Who supervises Newburyport Five Cents Savings Bank if a dispute goes nowhere?

Newburyport Five Cents Savings Bank answers primarily to the FDIC and its state banking regulator. If a §611 and a §623 dispute both return "verified" against paperwork you hold, take it to the CFPB; FCRA §§616–617 also create a private right of action. You do not need to pay anyone to do either. The Newburyport Five Cents Savings Bank head office in Newburyport is the right address for the written record.

How many credit-card complaints does the CFPB show against Newburyport Five Cents Savings Bank?

No number is published here. When we queried the CFPB credit-card complaint data, no company key matched Newburyport Five Cents Savings Bank exactly, and we will not approximate one by partial-name matching — that routinely pulls in unrelated companies with similar names. Rather than imply a count we cannot source, we leave it out. The database is public and searchable at consumerfinance.gov.

How long can a Newburyport Five Cents Savings Bank charge-off stay on my credit report?

Seven years from the first delinquency that was never cured — not from the charge-off, not from a sale, and not from the date Newburyport Five Cents Savings Bank last updated the line. If that date moves forward between two pulls, that is re-aging and it is disputable on its own.

What is the difference between disputing with Newburyport Five Cents Savings Bank and disputing with a collector?

Go to whoever holds the documents. Newburyport Five Cents Savings Bank has the signed application and the posting history; an assignee generally has a spreadsheet row. That is why a §623 direct dispute to Newburyport Five Cents Savings Bank tends to produce a substantive answer rather than a rubber-stamp verification.

Does Newburyport Five Cents Savings Bank report to all three credit bureaus?

Furnishing is voluntary under the FCRA, so Newburyport Five Cents Savings Bank — 12 offices in Massachusetts — may report to one or two bureaus rather than all three. Compare the three files side by side: differing balances are usually timing, but differing account status or first-delinquency dates are disputable.

I see duplicate Newburyport Five Cents Savings Bank tradelines — is that allowed?

One account showing twice is a classic conversion artifact. Newburyport Five Cents Savings Bank has operated since 1854, and a charter that old has usually been through at least one core-system migration. An account may legitimately appear under a predecessor name, but the same debt must not report twice with two balances. Dispute the duplicate and name both tradelines.

Can I dispute a Newburyport Five Cents Savings Bank account myself without paying anyone?

No payment is required. Writing to the bureaus under §611 or to Newburyport Five Cents Savings Bank under §623 costs you postage. Paid help is optional and cannot unlock anything extra; results depend entirely on what the documentation shows, and accurate entries stay put.

Where is Newburyport Five Cents Savings Bank headquartered, and does that affect my dispute?

Newburyport Five Cents Savings Bank is headquartered in Newburyport, Massachusetts, with 12 FDIC-reported offices. Headquarters does not change your federal rights — the FCRA applies identically everywhere — but it does tell you which state banking regulator shares oversight, which matters if you escalate past the CFPB.

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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 Newburyport Five Cents Savings Bank; 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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