Northfield Savings Bank on Your Credit Report
In short: Headquartered in Northfield, Vermont, Northfield Savings Bank is a state-chartered savings institution supervised by the FDIC and its state regulator. The charter behind FDIC certificate 14140 dates to November 21, 1867. At the 06/30/2026 reporting date the bank showed $1.58 billion in total assets and 13 FDIC-reported offices. Northfield Savings Bank is the furnisher of record on accounts it originates, so both the §623 route to the bank and the §611 route through the bureaus are available to you. 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 Northfield Savings Bank actually is
Charter details above are from the FDIC BankFind public database.
What makes this creditor different
Northfield Savings Bank appears in FDIC BankFind as certificate 14140, headquartered Northfield, Vermont, chartered November 21, 1867, with 13 FDIC-reported offices and $1.58 billion in assets.
How Northfield Savings Bank appears on your credit report
Northfield Savings Bank furnishes this tradeline directly rather than acquiring it, so the underlying documentation sits with the bank itself. With a Vermont charter and 13 FDIC-reported offices, Northfield Savings Bank adjudicates these disputes internally. Put it in writing, name the specific field you say is inaccurate, and file the §611 dispute alongside it. No outcome is promised — what happens depends on the underlying documentation.
Names it may report under
Products that commonly show up
- ◆Consumer lines of credit opened at the 13 Vermont banking offices of Northfield Savings Bank
- ◆Home-equity lines and residential mortgages originated near Northfield
- ◆Vehicle and equipment paper financed directly through Northfield Savings Bank
Grounds to dispute a Northfield Savings Bank entry
Each of these is a reason a Northfield Savings Bank tradeline may be inaccurate or unverifiable. None of them assures removal — they are the angles worth checking on your own report.
- ◆In-branch payment in Northfield posted after the due date and reported 30 days late
- ◆Balance not updated to zero after Northfield Savings Bank completed the payoff
- ◆Duplicate Northfield Savings Bank tradeline created when the loan was renumbered internally
- ◆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
Northfield 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, Northfield 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 Northfield 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.
Northfield Savings Bank questions, answered
Is Northfield Savings Bank FDIC-insured, and under what certificate?
It is insured, and certificate 14140 is the number to quote. The FDIC lists a state-chartered savings institution supervised by the FDIC and its state regulator, headquartered Northfield, VT, chartered November 21, 1867, reporting $1.58 billion and 13 offices as of 06/30/2026.
Who supervises Northfield Savings Bank if a dispute goes nowhere?
Supervision sits with the FDIC and its state banking regulator. When both the §611 bureau dispute and the §623 direct dispute to Northfield Savings Bank come back "verified" and your documents say otherwise, the CFPB complaint portal is the next step, and FCRA §§616–617 preserve a private right of action. Send your written record to the Northfield Savings Bank head office in Northfield, Vermont.
How many credit-card complaints does the CFPB show against Northfield Savings Bank?
No number is published here. When we queried the CFPB credit-card complaint data, no company key matched Northfield 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 Northfield Savings Bank charge-off stay on my credit report?
The seven-year window runs from first delinquency on the underlying Northfield Savings Bank account. Transfers, charge-offs and sales are irrelevant to that date. A first-delinquency field that shifts forward on a later pull is re-aging and should be disputed on that basis alone.
What is the difference between disputing with Northfield Savings Bank and disputing with a collector?
The records live in different places. As the original creditor, Northfield Savings Bank holds the application, the statements and the payment ledger, while a buyer of the debt usually holds an electronic summary. A §623 dispute aimed at Northfield Savings Bank therefore lands where the evidence actually is.
Does Northfield Savings Bank report to all three credit bureaus?
Furnishing is voluntary under the FCRA, so Northfield Savings Bank — 13 offices in Vermont — 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 Northfield Savings Bank tradelines — is that allowed?
One account showing twice is a classic conversion artifact. Northfield Savings Bank has operated since 1867, 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 Northfield Savings Bank account myself without paying anyone?
No payment is required. Writing to the bureaus under §611 or to Northfield 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 Northfield Savings Bank headquartered, and does that affect my dispute?
Northfield Savings Bank is headquartered in Northfield, Vermont, with 13 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 Northfield 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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