NerdWallet Announces Winners of Its 2025 Best-Of Awards

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NerdWallet Announces Winners of Its 2025 Best-Of Awards

2025-01-02 22:00 Last Updated At：22:20

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan 2, 2025--

NerdWallet, Inc. (Nasdaq: NRDS), a personal finance website and app that provides financial guidance to consumers and small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs), today announced the winners of its 2025 Best-Of Awards.

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NerdWallet’s Best-of Awards are yearly awards recognizing the best financial products available. Our Nerds, a team of seasoned journalists and subject-matter experts, researched 1,000+ financial products, narrowing down to just one winner per category — so it’s easy to choose the right one for you. This year’s awards highlight top picks across categories including Credit Cards, Personal Loans, Banking, Investing, Mortgages, Insurance and Travel Rewards.

“We know that consumers don’t always want to research dozens of financial products to find the best one. That’s why we created the Best-of Awards list – our Nerds do all of the work, so you don’t have to,” said Alison McCoy, Vice President of Brand Marketing at NerdWallet. “When you see a Best-Of Awards badge on a product, you know it’s a mark of excellence our Nerds stand behind.”

44 seasoned journalists and subject-matter experts worked on the 2025 Best-of Awards, using a comprehensive scoring formula to objectively evaluate financial products and choose winners that deliver the most value to consumers. The process involves hundreds of hours digging into the terms and fine print, assessing rates, and scouring rewards to identify this year’s winners.

“Our team dedicates hundreds of hours to researching and assessing financial products every year to make objective, data-based recommendations,” said Hanah Cho, Vice President of Content at NerdWallet. “These efforts culminate in the Best-of Awards, reflecting NerdWallet’s commitment to providing consumers with trustworthy guidance so they can make financial decisions with confidence.”

To see all of NerdWallet’s 2025 Best-Of Awards winners and to meet some of the Nerds behind the list, click here.

NerdWallet’s Best Credit Cards Winners for 2025:

NerdWallet’s Best Personal Loans Winners for 2025:

NerdWallet’s Best Banking Winners for 2025:

NerdWallet’s Best Investing Winners for 2025:

NerdWallet’s Best Mortgages Winners for 2025:

NerdWallet’s Best Insurance Winners for 2025:

NerdWallet’s Best Travel Rewards Winners for 2025:

About NerdWallet

NerdWallet (Nasdaq: NRDS) is on a mission to provide clarity for all of life’s financial decisions. As a personal finance website and app, NerdWallet provides consumers with trustworthy and knowledgeable financial information so they can make smart money moves. From finding the best credit card to buying a house, NerdWallet is there to help consumers make financial decisions with confidence. Consumers have free access to our expert content and comparison shopping marketplaces, plus a data-driven app, which helps them stay on top of their finances and save time and money, giving them the freedom to do more. NerdWallet is available for consumers in the U.S., United Kingdom, Canada and Australia.

Pope Leo urges peace in first Easter Mass, skips naming wars in Urbi et Orbi

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV celebrated his first Easter Mass as pontiff with a call Sunday to lay down arms and seek peace to global conflicts through dialogue, but he departed from a tradition of listing the world's woes by name in the Urbi et Orbi blessing from the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica.

Leo, the first U.S.-born pope, emphasized Easter’s message of hope as a celebration of Jesus’ resurrection after being crucified, in both the blessing and his homily.

“Let us allow our hearts to be transformed by his immense love for us! Let those who have weapons lay them down! Let those who have the power to unleash wars choose peace! Not a peace imposed by force, but through dialogue! Not with the desire to dominate others, but to encounter them!” the pope implored.

With the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran in its second month and Russia’s ongoing campaign in Ukraine, Leo acknowledged a sense of indifference “to the deaths of thousands of people ... to the repercussions of hatred and division that conflicts sow … to the economic and social consequences they produce.’’

Without mentioning the wars by name, Leo quoted his predecessor, Pope Francis, who during his last public appearance from the same loggia last Easter reminded the faithful of the “great thirst for death, for killing, we witness each day.’’

Francis, weakened by a long illness, died the next day on Easter Monday.

The Urbi et Orbi blessing, Latin for “to the city and the world,’’ has traditionally included a litany of the world’s woes. Leo followed that formula during his Christmas blessing. There was no immediate explanation for the shift.

Earlier, Leo addressed some 50,000 faithful from an open-air altar in St. Peter’s Square flanked with white roses, while the steps leading down to the piazza where the faithful gathered were filled with spring perennials, symbolically resonating with the pope’s words.

He implored the faithful to keep their hope in the face of death, which lurks "in the abuses that crush the weakest among us, because the idolatry of profit that plunders the earth’s resources, because of the violence of war that kills and destroys.’’

Speaking from the loggia, the pope announced a prayer vigil for peace April 11 in the Basilica.

“On this day of celebration, let us abandon every desire for conflict, domination, and power, and implore the Lord to grant his peace to a world ravaged by wars and marked by a hatred and indifference that makes us feel powerless in the face of evil,’’ he said.

Leo greeted the global faithful in 10 languages, including Arabic, Chinese and Latin, reviving a practice that his predecessor Pope Francis had let lapse.

Before retreating into the basilica, Leo stepped forward out of the loggia’s shadow and waved to the cheering crowd below.

During the marathon that is Holy Week, Leo also reclaimed the tradition of washing priests’ feet on Holy Thursday, a gesture of encouragement toward clergy, after Francis had chosen a more inclusive path, traveling to prisons and homes for the disabled to wash the feet of women, non-Christians and prisoners.

The 70-year-old pontiff also became the first pope in decades to carry the light wooden cross for the entire 14 stations during the Way of the Cross on Good Friday.

Traditional ceremonies at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, revered by Christians as the traditional site of Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection, were scaled back under an agreement with Israeli police. Authorities have put limits on the sizes of public gatherings due to ongoing missile attacks.

The restrictions also dampened the recent Muslim holy month of Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr holiday, as well as the current weeklong Jewish festival of Passover. On Sunday, the Jewish priestly blessing at the Western Wall — normally attended by tens of thousands — was limited to just 50 people.

The restrictions have strained relations between Israeli authorities and Christian leaders. Police last week prevented two of the church’s top religious leaders, including Latin Patriarch Pierbattista Pizzaballa, from celebrating Palm Sunday at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

On Tuesday, the pope had expressed hope that the war could be finished before Easter.

Barry reported from Milan. Associated Press writer Josef Federman in Jerusalem contributed to this report.