WalletHub (formerly CardHub.com) is a personal finance company that launched in August 2013.
It is based in
Miami
Miami is a East Coast of the United States, coastal city in the U.S. state of Florida and the county seat of Miami-Dade County, Florida, Miami-Dade County in South Florida. It is the core of the Miami metropolitan area, which, with a populat ...
and owned by Evolution Finance, Inc.
WalletHub offers free consumer tools, such as its WalletLiteracy Quiz and its Financial Fitness Tool, which provides users with credit reports, scores and monitoring. WalletHub has tools for comparing credit cards, personal loans, car insurance and bank accounts.
History
WalletHub initially positioned itself as a "personal finance social network" with a focus on reviews for financial advisors,
and later expanded to add financial management tools.
In February 2015,
Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball league composed of 30 teams, divided equally between the National League (baseball), National League (NL) and the American League (AL), with 29 in the United States and 1 in Canada. MLB i ...
filed a trademark dispute claiming that WalletHub's logo resembled the logos of the
Washington Nationals
The Washington Nationals are an American professional baseball team based in Washington, D.C. The Nationals compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) East Division. They play their home games at Na ...
and the
Chicago Cubs
The Chicago Cubs are an American professional baseball team based in Chicago. The Cubs compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (baseball), National League (NL) National League Central, Central Division. Th ...
too closely. Major League Baseball ended the dispute in August 2015 after WalletHub amended its trademark registration to explicitly exclude baseball and softball from the trademark's scope.
Wallethub lists US cities with population of over 200,000, based on the recent US Census data instead of all US cities and Census-designated places.
Products and services
WalletHub provides financial product comparison tools for credit cards, car insurance, and bank accounts. The company has produced a wide range of research reports, including a quarterly credit card debt report and reports comparing cities and states in financially relevant categories. WalletHub also offers free credit scores, reports, and monitoring through a partnership with
TransUnion
TransUnion LLC is an American consumer credit reporting agency. TransUnion collects and aggregates information on over one billion individual consumers in over thirty countries including "200 million files profiling nearly every credit-active co ...
.
References
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Financial services companies established in 2013
Internet properties established in 2013
Finance websites