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.
EMV will soon be the global standard for credit card transaction technology. EMV allows cardholder data to be stored more securely, potentially reducing fraudulent transactions