IndexHalo
MEASURED STUDY · 13 AUGUST 2026

AI crawler access:
finance and business media

Financial publishers and fintechs. 29 domains measured; 11 block at least one of the fifteen tracked AI crawlers.

11of 29 finance and business media block at least one AI crawler · median access 100%

Every domain in this category

Sorted by the share of tracked AI crawlers permitted, lowest first. Each report shows all fifteen verdicts and the robots.txt rule behind them.

DomainAccessAllowedBlockedNot listed
cnbc.com20%3120
barrons.com27%4110
investopedia.com27%4110
marketwatch.com27%4110
forbes.com47%780
businessinsider.com80%1230
fastcompany.com87%1320
fortune.com87%1320
inc.com87%1320
fool.com93%1410
nerdwallet.com93%1410
bankofamerica.com100%1500
bankrate.com100%1500
barclays.co.uk100%1500
binance.com100%1500
chase.com100%1500
coinbase.com100%1500
creditkarma.com100%1500
hsbc.com100%1500
kraken.com100%1500
monzo.com100%1500
morningstar.com100%1500
n26.com100%1500
paypal.com100%1500
revolut.com100%1500
santander.com100%1500
starlingbank.com100%1500
wellsfargo.com100%1500
wise.com100%1500

Method and caveats are described on the full study page: one robots.txt fetch per domain, resolved against fifteen published AI user-agents, reported as the voluntary policy it is. Check any site yourself with the free crawler access checker.

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