1 Close your credit card accounts.  Paying off multiple credit cards with a debt consolidation loan may be a good idea, but be careful about racking up more debt on the open accounts. Think about keeping one account open for an emergency and closing the others.
- Jul. Today, Square announced a new version of its popular mobile payment system that will support EMV chipped credit cards. EMV is a joint effort from MasterCard and Visa to help improve security credit and debit card transactions and is set to become a standard in the US by October 2015.
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