We believe it's important for consumers to make informed financial decisions. So we want to be transparent about how creditcardGenius makes money.

We maintain a growing database of 227 Canadian credit cards, and track 126+ features for each. Some financial institutions pay us a referral fee when a customer applies through creditcardGenius and their application is approved, which may influence what we write about and how products appear on the site.

However, we list cards from every major national financial institution (unless they have asked us not to), even if they pay us nothing. Our rankings and ratings are strictly independent of compensation because our math-based algorithm solely dictates the results of our Genius Rating.

Developed and fine-tuned over 15 years, our comparison engine started as a passion project with a simple goal: to simplify the complex and confusing reward systems so consumers can make informed decisions.

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creditcardGenius is a smart credit card matchmaker that compares 126+ features of 227+ credit cards, with objective ratings, rankings and reviews. Built in 2017, for Canadians by Canadians, creditcardGenius is trusted by more than 200,000 people every month, 50,000 newsletter subscribers, and 15M people since launch.

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