SEC Form 3

FORM 3

UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 INITIAL STATEMENT OF BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP OF SECURITIES Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or Section 30(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940

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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person* Pike Lynn A (Last) (First) (Middle) 1680 CAPITAL ONE DRIVE (Street) MCLEAN VA 22102 (City) (State) (Zip)	2. Date of Event Requiring Statement (Month/Day/Year) 04/23/2007	3. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol CAPITAL ONE FINANCIAL CORP [ COF ]
		4. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer (Check all applicable) Director 10% Owner X Officer (give title below) Other (specify below) COO, Banking Segment	5. If Amendment, Date of Original Filed (Month/Day/Year)
			6. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check Applicable Line) X Form filed by One Reporting Person Form filed by More than One Reporting Person

Table I - Non-Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned
1. Title of Security (Instr. 4)	2. Amount of Securities Beneficially Owned (Instr. 4)	3. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 5)	4. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 5)
Common Stock	0.00	D

Table II - Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned (e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)
1. Title of Derivative Security (Instr. 4)	2. Date Exercisable and Expiration Date (Month/Day/Year)		3. Title and Amount of Securities Underlying Derivative Security (Instr. 4)		4. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security	5. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 5)	6. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 5)
	Date Exercisable	Expiration Date	Title	Amount or Number of Shares

Explanation of Responses:

	/s/ Tangela S. Richter (POA on file) for Lynn Pike	04/27/2007
	** Signature of Reporting Person	Date
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                                POWER OF ATTORNEY

        The undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints John G. Finneran, Polly
A. Nyquist and Tangela S. Richter, each of them, as the true and lawful
attorneys-in-fact(with full power of substitution and revocation in each) to:

(1)     execute, for and on behalf of the undersigned, any and all statements
        and reports required or permitted to be filed by the undersigned, in any
        and all capacities, under Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act
        of 1934, as amended, and the rules promulgated thereunder (the "Act")
        with respect to the beneficial ownership of the securities of Capital
        One Financial Corporation (the "Company"), including without limitation
        Forms 3, 4, 5, and Form 144 required to be filed by the undersigned
        under Rule 144 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended;

(2)     do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned
        which may be necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such
        statements and reports and file such statements and reports, with all
        amendments, supplements and exhibits thereto, with the Securities and
        Exchange Commission, the New York Stock Exchange and/or any other stock
        exchange or any similar authority and to deliver copies thereof to the
        Company;

(3)     take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the
        foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of
        benefit to, in the best interest of, or legally required by, the
        undersigned, it being understood that the documents executed by such
        attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Power of
        Attorney shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and
        conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve in his or her
        discretion; and (4) request and receive from any broker (i) periodic
        reports detailing the undersigned's retail holdings of Capital One's
        securities held in his or her account(s) and, (ii) confirmations of
        acquisitions or dispositions of the company's securities, or other
        derivative instrument based on any of the company's equity affected by
        such broker in or through his or her account(s), with no obligation to
        receive further approval from the undersigned for such request(s).

        The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power
and authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever
requisite, necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights
and powers herein granted, as fully as the undersigned could do if personally
present, with full power of substitution or revocation, and hereby ratifies and
confirms all that such attorneys-in-fact shall lawfully do or cause to be done
by virtue of this Power of Attorney. The undersigned acknowledges that the
foregoing attorneys-in-fact, acting in such capacity at the request of the
undersigned, are not assuming, nor is the Company assuming, any of the
undersigned's responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Act.

        This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the
undersigned is no longer required to file statements or reports under Section
16(a) of the Act with respect to holdings of and transactions in securities
issued by the Company, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed
writing delivered to the foregoing attorneys-in-fact.

        IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to
be executed as of this 27th day of April, 2007.

Name: Lynn A. Pike

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT FOR POWER OF ATTORNEY

STATE OF New York

CITY/COUNTY OF Suffolk

The foregoing instrument was acknowledged before me this 27th day of April, 2007

by Lynn A. Pike

Notary Public Aurelie S. Campbell
My commission expires August 3, 2010.