bankrate inc. type public traded as nyse rate industry internet founded 1976 headquarters new york city new york u.s. area served u.s. canada china key people kenneth esterow president and ceo revenue us 457.2 million 2012 1 number of employees 384 2 website bankrate.com bankrate inc. is a consumer financial services company based in new york city new york in the united states . bankrate.com perhaps its best known brand is a personal finance website . contents 1 history 2 services 3 honors 4 references 5 external links history edit bankrate was founded in 1976 as a print publisher of the bank rate monitor . 2 in 1996 the company began moving its business online . 2 today bankrate inc. s online network includes bankrate.com as well as creditcards.com interest.com bankaholic.com mortgage calc.com creditcardguide.com thepointsguy.com bankrate.com.cn creditcards.ca netquote.com cd.com walla.by and quizzle . the online network received over 150 million visits in 2010 . 2 in january 2011 bankrate completed the acquisition of trouve media . in december 2011 bankrate completed the acquisition of substantially all of the assets of insweb corporation for 65 million in cash . 4 and in march 2012 bankrate acquired insuranceagents.com . 5 after spending 10 years as a public company traded on the nasdaq bankrate was acquired in 2009 by apax partners in a transaction valued at approximately 571 million . 6 in june 2011 bankrate raised a total of 300 million in gross proceeds with a successful initial public offering on the new york stock exchange . 7 in december 2011 bankrate priced a secondary offering of 12.5 million shares at 17.50 per share . 8 kenneth s. esterow was appointed bankrate s president and chief executive officer in january 2014 having previously served as senior vice president chief operating officer from september 2013 to december 2013 . 9 services edit the new york stock exchange on june 17 2011 when bankrate s shares were listed . bankrate is a leading publisher aggregator and distributor of personal finance content on the internet . bankrate provides consumers with proprietary fully researched comprehensive independent and objective personal finance editorial content across multiple vertical categories including mortgages deposits insurance credit cards personal loans and other categories such as retirement automobile loans and taxes . the bankrate network includes bankrate.com creditcards.com and caring.com the company s flagship websites and other owned and operated personal finance websites including interest.com bankaholic.com mortgage calc.com creditcardguide.com and creditcards.ca . bankrate aggregates rate information from over 4 800 institutions on more than 300 financial products . with coverage of over 600 local markets bankrate generates rate tables in all 50 u.s. states . bankrate develops and provides web services to over 100 co branded websites with online partners including some of the most trusted and frequently visited personal finance sites on the internet such as yahoo cnbc and bloomberg . in addition bankrate licenses editorial content to over 500 newspapers on a daily basis including the wall street journal usa today the new york times the los angeles times and the boston globe . one of bankrate s reports in 2014 determined the costs of car ownership in each state taking into account the costs of gas and insurance among other factors . the data suggested that wyoming is the most expensive state in the nation to own a car . 10 honors edit the national association of real estate editors in 2014 named bankrate s mortgage blog the winner of its best blog and best column awards . in october 2012 advertising age ranked bankrate as the fifth fastest growing media company . 11 bankrate s financial regulation one year later package earned a 2012 best in business award from the society of american business editors and writers sabew . 12 bankrate won two sabew awards in 2011 holden lewis mortgage blog and bankrate s explanatory series on financial reform were honored . 13 bankrate writers have won awards from the society of professional journalists several times most recently in 2007 for their coverage of the federal reserve open market committee s rate cut . 14 in 2008 forbes named bankrate 41 in its list of america s 200 best small companies . 15 forbes previously had honored the website in its best of the web series five times between 1999 and 2004 . 16 references edit bankrate announces fourth quarter and full year 2012 financial results . retrieved 2013 02 12 . a b c d amendment no. 1 to form s 1 registration statement under the securities act of 1933 . retrieved 2012 02 07 . bankrate inc. . businessweek . the mcgraw hill companies . retrieved 2008 11 29 . bankrate inc. completes acquisition of insurance lead generation and marketing assets of insweb corporation . retrieved 2012 02 04 . bankrate buys columbus leads generator insuranceagents.com . retrieved 2012 05 11 . bankrate inc. agrees to be acquired by apax partners for 28.50 per share in cash press release . bankrate inc. july 22 2009 . bankrate inc. celebrates initial public offering and first day of trading on the new york stock exchange press release . new york stock exchange . june 17 2011 . bankrate inc. announces pricing of secondary offering press release . bankrate inc. december 6 2011 . proxy statement pursuant to section 14 a of the securities exchange act of 1934 . april 30 2014 . chokshi niraj . map the most expensive state to be a car owner is wyoming . www.washingtonpost.com . the washington post . retrieved 12 august 2014 . your guide to the leading media companies 2012 . sabew . october 1 2012 . retrieved 2012 11 07 . complete list of winners in sabew s 17th annual best in business awards . sabew . february 17 2012 . retrieved 2012 02 21 . 202 winners announced for sabew s annual best in business contest . sabew . march 18 2011 . retrieved 2011 09 16 . spj announces the 2007 sigma delta chi award winners press release . society of professional journalists . april 14 2008 . and 54th annual green eyeshade excellence in journalism award winners press release . april 12 2004 . and 1999 sigma delta chi award honorees . retrieved 2008 11 30 . 41 bankrate . forbes.com . forbes digital . october 8 2008 . archived from the original on 12 december 2008 . retrieved 2008 11 28 . award winning content . bankrate . archived from the original on 23 june 2011 . retrieved 2011 07 28 . external links edit bankrate.com . bankrate . archived from the original on 28 july 2011 . retrieved 2011 07 28 . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title bankrate & oldid 741483495 categories companies listed on the new york stock exchangecompanies based in palm beach county floridapersonal finance websitesfinancial services companies of the united statesbankratehidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged 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