Bankrate, LLC is a consumer financial services company based in New York City. Bankrate.com, perhaps its best-known brand, is a personal finance website. As of November 8, 2017, it became a subsidiary of Red Ventures through an acquisition.[5] Bankrate contains AI-generated articles,[6] and is included on Wikipedia's spam blacklist due to its lack of credibility.[7]
History
Bankrate was founded in 1976 by Robert K. Heady as a print publisher of the "Bank Rate Monitor."[4]
In 1996, the company began moving its business online.[4] Today, Bankrate, Inc.'s online network includes Bankrate.com as well as CreditCards.com,