CreditCards.com is a credit card comparison and information website founded in 2004 and based in Austin, Texas. The company operates websites in the United States, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Mexico and the UK.
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History
CreditCards.com was founded in 2004 by Dan Smith, former CEO of ClickSuccess. Smith purchased the CreditCards.com domain name for $2.75 million, which at the time was one of the largest sums paid for a domain name. Smith served as CEO from 2004-2006. In 2006, CreditCards.com was acquired by a group led by Austin Venture Capital, which appointed Elisabeth DeMarse as head of the company. In 2010, Bankrate, Inc. acquired CreditCards.com for $143.1 million. Chris Speltz has served as CEO of CreditCards.com since 2010.
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Research and Studies
CreditCards.com regularly conducts research and commissions scientific polls on issues relating to credit and personal finance.
- Poll: More Americans expect to be in debt forever. A Princeton Survey conducted in December 2014 polled more than 1,000 consumers about their long-term outlook on being able to pay off their debt loads.
- Credit Card Tuition Payment Survey 2014. CreditCards.com reviewed the credit card payment policies at 300 public, private and community colleges across the country.
- 2014 CreditCards.com Penalty Rate Survey: The Price of Being Late. A CreditCards.com research team analyzed penalty interest rates of 100 major U.S. credit cards.
- Poll: Nearly half of cardholders avoid stores hit by data breaches. A Princeton Survey conducted in October 2014 polled 865 American adults who have debit or credit cards to find out whether recent data breaches would make them more reluctant to return to stores that have been hacked.
- Credit Card Statistics, Debt Statistics, Industry Facts. Updated annually, this compendium of facts and data serves consumers, journalists and researchers U.S. credit and debt figures.
- Statutes of limitation for credit card debt collection in 50 states. This interactive map shows the state laws as they apply to credit card debt collection.
- Credit card rate survey and tables. Weekly survey of a data set of 100 popular credit cards to evaluate issuer changes to card APRs, producing a weekly APR national average as well as an APR average in nine card category types.
- Poll: Card debt the No. 1 taboo subject. Americans are more comfortable talking about politics, religion and age than how much debt they carry on their credit cards, according to a CreditCards.com poll conducted by GfK Roper of more than 1,000 consumers.
- Poll: 28% of cardholders have never switched their favorite credit card. According to a poll by CreditCards.com, 28% of 1,659 surveyed U.S. adult cardholders have never changed credit cards and an additional 12% said they last switched credit cards 10 or more years ago.
External links
- Official website
References
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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