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.
Success as a Mediator For Dummies. Expected monetary value (EMV) is a ballpark figure that shows how much money a plaintiff can reasonably expect in mediation. Think of it as an average of the best- and worst-case scenarios. It accounts not only for the dollar figure assigned to each outcome but also for the likelihood of that outcome occurring.