Bankrate Editorial Team

Get to know our award-winning team of reporters and editors, who take pride in bringing you the most relevant news, insights and analysis for your financial journey.

Reporters and Editors

Money news from a team you can trust

Since 1976, Bankrate has been the source of truth for all things personal finance. That tradition continues today with our dedicated team of reporters and editors. Their breadth of experience and depth of knowledge makes them uniquely qualified to bring you news and insights you can trust.

We don’t stop there, either. We care so deeply about accuracy and relevancy that we created our financial review board of industry experts who review our content for an extra layer of trust and authority

Bankrate reporters and editors

Tracy Stewart Former Senior Editor, Credit Cards

Tracy Stewart is a personal finance writer specializing in credit card loyalty programs, travel benefits, and consumer protections.

Troy Segal Senior editor, Home Lending

Troy Segal is a senior editor for Bankrate. She edits stories about mortgages and home equity, along with the finer financial points of owning and maintaining a home.

Will Essilfie Contributor, Personal Finance

Will is a contributor at Bankrate and a lifelong aviation fanatic. He is interested in helping folks discover the world and fostering new communities on a budget using credit card…

Zach Wichter Former Mortgage reporter, Homes

Zach Wichter is a former mortgage reporter at Bankrate. He previously worked on the Business desk at The New York Times where he won a Loeb Award for breaking news, and covered…

Our editorial integrity

Bankrate follows a strict editorial policy, so you can trust that we’re putting your interests first. Our award-winning editors and reporters create honest and accurate content to help you make the right financial decisions.

Key principles

We value your trust. Our mission is to provide readers with accurate and unbiased information, and we have editorial standards in place to ensure that happens. Our editors and reporters thoroughly fact-check editorial content to ensure the information you’re reading is accurate. We maintain a firewall between our advertisers and our editorial team. Our editorial team does not receive direct compensation from our advertisers.

Editorial independence

Bankrate’s editorial team writes on behalf of YOU – the reader. Our goal is to give you the best advice to help you make smart personal finance decisions. We follow strict guidelines to ensure that our editorial content is not influenced by advertisers. Our content is thoroughly fact-checked to ensure accuracy. So, whether you’re reading an article or a review, you can trust that you’re getting credible and dependable information.

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Bankrate financial network

Meet our expert contributors

Beyond our dedicated team of reporters and editors, Bankrate employs a vast network of personal finance contributors.

They use their connections and subject matter expertise to add depth and authority to our coverage.

Bankrate contributors

TJ Porter Contributor, Personal Finance

Todd Christensen

Tony Steuer Expert Reviewer, CLU, LA, CPFFE

Veneta Lusk Contributing writer

Will Essilfie Contributor, Personal Finance

Zina Kumok Contributing writer

How we make money

Keeping your financial journey in mind

You have money questions. Bankrate has answers. Our experts have been helping you master your money for over four decades. We continually strive to provide consumers with the expert advice and tools needed to succeed throughout life’s financial journey.

We’re transparent about how we are able to bring quality content, competitive rates, and useful tools to you by explaining how we make money.

Bankrate.com is an independent, advertising-supported publisher and comparison service. We are compensated in exchange for placement of sponsored products and, services, or by you clicking on certain links posted on our site. Therefore, this compensation may impact how, where and in what order products appear within listing categories. Other factors, such as our own proprietary website rules and whether a product is offered in your area or at your self-selected credit score range can also impact how and where products appear on this site. While we strive to provide a wide range offers, Bankrate does not include information about every financial or credit product or service.

Additional information

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