CardRatings.com is a personal finance resource that helps lay people to learn about and compare credit cards.
Curtis Arnold founded the websites in August 1998, amid national concerns about credit card debt.
Arnold has also been cited by multiple news outlets over the years, for his views on consumer debt[2] CardRatings.com was among the first websites providing online credit card ratings and has grown over the years to become a reputable objective source of credit card rating information.
In 2016, CardRatings.com provided information on approximately 500 different credit card products that can be queried via the site's searchable knowledge base.
As part of its mission to help educate consumers about personal financing issues, CardRatings.com is also a National Partner of the Jump$tart Coalition for Financial Literacy.