CAPITAL ONE FINANCIAL CORP

2022 Call Report: Consolidated Reports of Condition and Income (FFIEC 031) as of December 31, 2022.

Allowance coverage ratio: Allowance for credit losses as a percentage of loans held for investment.

Amortized cost basis: The amount at which a financing receivable or investment is originated or acquired, adjusted for applicable accrued interest, accretion, or amortization of premium, discount, and net deferred fees or costs, collection of cash, write-offs, foreign exchange and fair value hedge accounting adjustments.

Annual Report: References to our “2025 Form 10-K” are to our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2025.

Bank: CONA, Capital One Financial Corporation’s principal operating subsidiary.

Basel Committee: The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision.

Basel III Capital Rules: The regulatory capital requirements established by the Federal Banking Agencies in July 2013 to implement the Basel III capital framework developed by the Basel Committee as well as certain Dodd-Frank Act and other capital provisions.

Basel III Finalization Proposals: Two notices of proposed rulemakings released by the Federal Banking Agencies on March 19, 2026 to revise the Basel III Capital Rules applicable to certain U.S. banking organizations.

Basel III standardized approach: The Basel III Capital Rules modified Basel I to create the Basel III standardized approach.

Brex: A payment services fintech company that specializes in streamlining the process for businesses to issue corporate cards, automate expense management and make secure, real-time payments.

Brex acquisition: On April 7, 2026, we completed the acquisition of Brex pursuant to the terms of an Agreement and Plan of Merger and Reorganization dated January 22, 2026.

Brex Closing Date: The acquisition of Brex was completed on April 7, 2026.

Capital Oneor the Company: Capital One Financial Corporation and its subsidiaries.

Carrying value (with respect to loans): The amount at which a loan is recorded on the consolidated balance sheets. For loans recorded at amortized cost basis, carrying value is the unpaid principal balance net of unamortized deferred loan origination fees and costs, and unamortized purchase premium or discount. For loans that are or have been on nonaccrual status, the carrying value is also reduced by any net charge-offs that have been recorded and the amount of interest payments applied as a reduction of principal under the cost recovery method. For credit card loans, the carrying value also includes interest that has been billed to the customer, net of any related reserves. Loans held for sale are recorded at either fair value (if we elect the fair value option) or at the lower of cost or fair value.

Closing Date: The Discover acquisition was completed on May 18, 2025.

Common equity Tier 1 (“CET1”) capital: CET1 capital primarily includes qualifying common shareholders’ equity, retained earnings and certain AOCI amounts less certain deductions for goodwill, intangible assets, and certain deferred tax assets.

CONA: Capital One, National Association, one of our wholly-owned subsidiaries, which offers a broad spectrum of banking products and financial services to consumers, small businesses and commercial clients.

CONA Bank Merger: The merger of Discover Bank into CONA with CONA as the surviving entity.

Credit risk: The risk to current or projected financial condition and resilience arising from an obligor’s failure to meet the terms of any contract with the Company or otherwise perform as agreed.

Derivative: A contract or agreement whose value is derived from changes in interest rates, foreign exchange rates, prices of securities or commodities, creditworthiness for credit default swaps or financial or commodity indices.

Diners Club: Diners Club International, a global payments network of licensees, which are generally financial institutions, that issue Diners Club branded charge cards and/or provide card acceptance services.

Discontinued operations: The operating results of a component of an entity, as defined by Accounting Standards Codification 205, that are removed from continuing operations when that component has been disposed of or it is management’s intention to sell the component.

Discover: Discover Financial Services, a Delaware corporation.

Discover Card Product Misclassification: Discover’s incorrect classification of certain credit card accounts into its highest merchant and merchant acquirer pricing tier.

Discover Network: The network that provides transaction processing and settlement services for credit and debit cards.

Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 (“Dodd-Frank Act”): Regulatory reform legislation signed into law on July 21, 2010. This law broadly affects the financial services industry and contains numerous provisions aimed at strengthening the sound operation of the financial services sector.

Exchange Act: The Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

eXtensible Business Reporting Language (“XBRL”): A language for the electronic communication of business and financial data.

Federal Banking Agencies: The Federal Reserve, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”): An independent U.S. governmental agency that administers the Deposit Insurance Fund.

Federal Reserve: The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

FICO score: A measure of consumer credit risk provided by credit bureaus, typically produced from statistical modeling software created by FICO (formerly known as “Fair Isaac Corporation”) utilizing data collected by the credit bureaus.

Financial difficulty modification (“FDM”): An FDM is deemed to occur when a loan modification is made to a borrower experiencing financial difficulty in the form of principal forgiveness, an interest rate reduction, an other-than-insignificant payment delay, a term extension, or a combination of these modifications in the current reporting period.

Foreign exchange contracts: Contracts that provide for the future receipt or delivery of foreign currency at previously agreed-upon terms.

Framework: The Capital One enterprise-wide risk management framework.

Global Payment Network: The Discover Network, PULSE Network and Diners Club, collectively.

GSEor Agency: A government-sponsored enterprise or agency is a financial services corporation created by the U.S. Congress. Examples of U.S. government agencies include the Federal National Mortgage Association (“Fannie Mae”), Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (“Freddie Mac”), Government National Mortgage Association (“Ginnie Mae”) and the Federal Home Loan Bank (“FHLB”).

Globally Systematically Important Bank Surcharge (“G-SIB Surcharge”): The capital buffer imposed on U.S. banking organizations designated as global systematically important banks (“G-SIBs”) under the Federal Reserve’s capital framework. The surcharge increases a G-SIB’s minimum Common Equity Tier 1 (“CET1”) capital requirement based on its systematic risk score, which considers factors such as size, interconnectedness, complexity, cross-jurisdictional activity, and sustainability.

Interest rate sensitivity: The exposure to interest rate movements.

Interest rate swaps: Contracts in which a series of interest rate flows in a single currency are exchanged over a prescribed period. Interest rate swaps are the most common type of derivative contract that we use in our asset/liability management activities.

Investment grade: Represents a Moody’s long-term rating of Baa3 or better; and/or an S&P long-term rating of BBB- or better; and/or a Fitch long-term rating of BBB- or better; or if unrated, an equivalent rating using our internal risk ratings. Instruments that fall below these levels are considered to be non-investment grade.

Investor Entities: Entities that invest in community development entities (“CDEs”) that provide debt financing to businesses and non-profit entities in low-income and rural communities.

LCR Rule: The final rules published by the Basel Committee and as implemented by the Federal Banking Agencies in 2014 for the Basel III Liquidity Coverage Ratio (“LCR”) in the U.S. The LCR is calculated by dividing the amount of an institution’s high-quality, unencumbered liquid assets by its estimated net cash outflow, as defined and calculated in accordance with the LCR Rule.

Leverage ratio: Tier 1 capital divided by average assets after certain adjustments, as defined by regulators.

Liquidity risk: The risk that the Company will not be able to meet its future financial obligations as they come due, or invest in future asset growth because of an inability to obtain funds at a reasonable price within a reasonable time.

Loss severity: Loss given default.

Managed presentation: A non-GAAP presentation of business segment results derived from our internal management accounting and reporting process, which employs various allocation methodologies, including funds transfer pricing, to assign certain balance sheet assets, deposits and other liabilities and their related revenues and expenses directly or indirectly attributable to each business segment. The results of our individual businesses reflect the manner in which management evaluates performance and makes decisions about funding our operations and allocating resources and are intended to reflect each segment as if it were a stand-alone business.

Market risk: The risk that an institution’s earnings or the economic value of equity could be adversely impacted by changes in interest rates, foreign exchange rates or other market factors.

Master netting agreement: An agreement between two counterparties that have multiple contracts with each other that provides for the net settlement of all contracts through a single payment in the event of default or termination of any one contract.

Merger: The merger of Merger Sub with and into Discover, with Discover as the surviving entity, pursuant to the Merger Agreement.

Merger Agreement: Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of February 19, 2024, by and among Discover, Capital One and Merger Sub.

Merger Sub: Vega Merger Sub, Inc.

Mortgage servicing rights (“MSRs”): The right to service a mortgage loan when the underlying loan is sold or securitized. Servicing includes collections of principal, interest and escrow payments from borrowers and accounting for and remitting principal and interest payments to investors.

Net charge-off rate: Represents (annualized) net charge-offs divided by average loans held for investment for the period. Negative net charge-offs and related rates are captioned as net recoveries.

Net interest margin: Represents (annualized) net interest income divided by average interest-earning assets for the period.

Nonperforming loans: Generally include loans that have been placed on nonaccrual status. We do not report loans classified as held for sale as nonperforming.

NSFR Rule: The final rules published by the Basel Committee and as issued by the Federal Banking Agencies in October 2020 implementing the Basel III Net Stable Funding Ratio (“NSFR”) in the U.S. The NSFR measures the stability of our funding profile and requires us to maintain minimum amounts of stable funding to support our assets, commitments and derivatives exposures over a one-year period.

Public Fund Deposits: Deposits that are derived from a variety of political subdivisions such as school districts and municipalities.

PULSE Network: The network which operates an electronic funds transfer network, providing financial institutions issuing debit cards on the PULSE Network with access to ATMs domestically and internationally, as well as merchant acceptance throughout the U.S. for debit card transactions.

Purchase volume: Consists of purchase transactions, net of returns, for the period, and excludes cash advance and balance transfer transactions.

Rating agency: An independent agency that assesses the credit quality and likelihood of default of an issue or issuer and assigns a rating to that issue or issuer.

Repurchase agreement: An instrument used to raise short-term funds whereby securities are sold with an agreement for the seller to buy back the securities at a later date.

Restructuring charges: Charges associated with the realignment of resources supporting various businesses, primarily consisting of severance and related benefits pursuant to our ongoing benefit programs and impairment of certain assets related to the business locations and/or activities being exited.

Risk-weighted assets: On- and off-balance sheet assets that are assigned to one of several broad risk categories and weighted by factors representing their risk and potential for default.

Second Step Merger: The merger of Discover with and into Capital One, with Capital One as the surviving entity.

Securitized debt obligations: A type of asset-backed security and structured credit product constructed from a portfolio of fixed-income assets.

Stress capital buffer requirement: A component of our standardized approach capital conservation buffer, which is recalibrated annually based on the results of our supervisory stress tests.

Stress Capital Buffer Rule: The final rule issued by the Federal Reserve in March 2020 to implement the stress capital buffer requirement.

Stress Testing Transparency Proposal: The Federal Reserve’s October 2025 proposal for the Federal Reserve to annually publish comprehensive documentation on the stress test models, invite public comment on any material changes to those models, and annually publish the stress test scenarios for comment.

Subprime: For purposes of lending in our Credit Card business, we generally consider FICO scores of 660 or below, or other equivalent risk scores, to be subprime. For purposes of auto lending in our Consumer Banking business, we generally consider FICO scores of 620 or below to be subprime.

Tangible common equity (“TCE”): A non-GAAP financial measure calculated as common equity less goodwill and other intangible assets, inclusive of any related deferred tax liabilities.

This Report: Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended June 30, 2026.

Transactionor Discover acquisition: On May 18, 2025, we completed the acquisition of Discover in an all-stock transaction as outlined in the Merger Agreement dated February 19, 2024.

Unfunded lending commitments: Legally binding agreements to provide a defined level of financing until a specified future date.

U.S. GAAP: Generally accepted accounting principles in the U.S. Accounting rules and conventions defining acceptable practices in preparing financial statements in the U.S.

Variable interest entity (“VIE”): An entity that, by design, either (i) lacks sufficient equity to permit the entity to finance its activities without additional subordinated financial support from other parties; or (ii) has equity investors that do not have (a) the ability to make significant decisions relating to the entity’s operations through voting rights, (b) the obligation to absorb the expected losses, and/or (c) the right to receive the residual returns of the entity.

Acronyms

ABS: Asset-backed securities

AOCI: Accumulated other comprehensive income

ASU: Accounting Standards Update

ATM: Automated teller machine

BHC: Bank holding company

bps: Basis points

CAD: Canadian dollar

CCP: Central Counterparty Clearinghouse, or Central Clearinghouse

CDE: Community development entities

CEO: Chief Executive Officer

CET1: Common equity Tier 1 capital

CFO: Chief Financial Officer

CFPB: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

CMBS: Commercial mortgage-backed securities

CME: Chicago Mercantile Exchange

CODM: Chief Operating Decision Maker

COEP: Capital One (Europe) plc

COF: Capital One Financial Corporation

COMET: Capital One Multi-asset Execution Trust

CONA: Capital One, National Association

COPAR: Capital One Prime Auto Receivables Trusts

CVA: Credit valuation adjustment

DCENT: Discover Card Execution Note Trust

DCF: Discounted cash flow

EUR: Euro

Fannie Mae: Federal National Mortgage Association

FCM: Futures commission merchant

FDIC: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

FDM: Financial difficulty modification

FFIEC: Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council

FHLB: Federal Home Loan Bank

FICC - GSD: Fixed Income Clearing Corporation - Government Securities Division

FICO: Fair Isaac Corporation

Fitch: Fitch Ratings

Freddie Mac: Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation

GAAP: Generally accepted accounting principles in the U.S.

GBP: Pound sterling

Ginnie Mae: Government National Mortgage Association

G-SIB: Global systemically important banks

GSEor Agency: Government-sponsored enterprise

ICE: Intercontinental Exchange

IRM: Independent Risk Management

LCH: LCH Group

LCR: Liquidity coverage ratio

LLC: Limited liability company

Moody’s: Moody’s Investors Service

MSRs: Mortgage servicing rights

NSFR: Net stable funding ratio

OCC: Office of the Comptroller of the Currency

OCI: Other comprehensive income

OTC: Over-the-counter

PCA: Prompt corrective action

RMBS: Residential mortgage-backed securities

S&P: Standard & Poor’s

SEC: U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

SOFR: Secured Overnight Financing Rate

TCE: Tangible common equity

U.K.: United Kingdom

U.S.: United States of America

VaR: Value-At-Risk

VIE: Variable interest entity