What you can hold us to
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Standards
Sourcing, checking, bylines, dates and commercial links, set out so you can judge what you read on Emarsys Finance.
Publishing about personal finance without saying how you work is asking for trust you have not earned. This is how we work.
The date on an article is the date it was published. When a change alters the advice, we update the modified date and say what changed. Cosmetic edits do not reset the date, because pretending a page is fresher than it is helps nobody.
Some links on this site are commercial. They never buy a rewrite of the surrounding paragraph.
If a partner asks us to remove a criticism, the answer is no, and the request itself may end up mentioned in a future article.
Bylines are real people with real archives attached. If you disagree with a piece, you can see what else the same person has written and judge accordingly.
Wren Halloway, Budgeting and household finance writer. Wren spent six years building budgets during financial planning intake sessions before deciding the templates never survived a real irregular paycheck. She writes about budgets built for income that actually fluctuates, not a steady salary on a spreadsheet.
Owen Castellano, Credit and debt writer. Owen worked in consumer debt collections for five years before switching sides to explain what actually shows up on a credit report and what a collector can and cannot do. He writes about credit and debt from the side that used to call.
Sable Whitmore, Investing and retirement writer. Sable opened her first index fund account at twenty four and has tracked every contribution and return since. She writes about investing and retirement from her own numbers, not a hypothetical example.
What gets written is decided by demand, not by a schedule. A question that keeps arriving, from readers or from our own work, becomes a page. A clever keyword with no real question behind it does not.
Corrections go to [email protected]. Include the address and the sentence. Anything factual is fixed without argument. Anything that changes what the article recommends gets a dated note underneath, so the change is visible.