Archive record
Credit Kudos.
Smart financial management
Acquired · as of 2026-09-29
What it does
Only a directory card survives. It described Credit Kudos, in public beta, as smart financial management: insight into spending and a free credit rating check, with the stated goal of ending problem debt by warning people when their finances went off course.
What happened next
By January 2016 the creditkudos.com site was pitching lenders a credit-scoring service built on real-time bank transaction data, and said it was in trials with UK lenders and brokers. In March 2022 Apple bought the company; SiliconANGLE, citing The Block, put the price at about $150 million. Companies House records Apple Inc. as controlling shareholder from 21 March 2022, and on 18 July 2023 the company was renamed Apple Payments Services Limited, which remains active.
Based on acquisition: Acquired (2022-03-23).
What’s on record
- Renamed
Credit Kudos Limited changed its name to Apple Payments Services Limited; the company remains active.
Rename · Announced - Acquired
SiliconANGLE reported that Apple bought Credit Kudos for about $150 million, citing sources who spoke to The Block, and that the company's terms of use now pointed to Apple's.
Acquisition · Announced - Acquired
Companies House records Apple Inc. as a person with significant control of Credit Kudos Limited, holding 75% or more of shares and voting rights, notified 21 March 2022.
Acquisition · Announced
On the old Stompstart
- Stompstart listing
Only a directory card survives. It described Credit Kudos, in public beta, as smart financial management: insight into spending and a free credit rating check, with the stated goal of ending problem debt by warning people when their finances went off course.
Credit Kudos
Smart financial management
Credit Kudos helps users understand their financial health and how to improve it. Users get insight into their spending and a free credit rating check. Our goal is rid the world of problem debt by proactively informing people when they are going off course and giving them...
Captured 2019-09-21 from a directory page