Personal Finance Awards
Updated: 30 Jun 2025
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Frequently Asked Questions
- NerdWallet's award winners are chosen through a rigorous evaluation process involving 44 writers and editors. NerdWallet's ratings formulas for credit cards, for example, consider the type of card being reviewed (such as cash back, travel, or balance transfer) and the card's rates, fees, rewards, and other features. For mortgages, we evaluate loan average rates and fees, loan types and products, online rate information, ease of application and other factors. For more info, see our methodologies.
- Our team of nerdy experts is composed of writers and editors — based all across the country — who have a combined 546 years of journalistic experience reviewing and writing about personal finance products for consumers.