buy a house? Credit Card Management Your…

You have decided to buy your own home. You believe you are ready, and are prepared, because you have saved for a significant period of time to make the necessary down-payment and reserve deposit. However, if you’re like many others, you probably haven’t focused enough on the effects and implications of your credit card, on … Read more

How Merchant Accounts Have Been Improving Small…

Credit cards and merchant accounts have changed the way people shop and companies do business. Some people remember the days without “plastic”. Credit cards were first used in the 1920s. Hotels and oil companies offered cards to their customers, but they were more like today’s “loyalty” cards than credit cards. The first real credit card … Read more

Identity Theft and Credit Card Fraud

Identity Theft And Credit Card Fraud

Identity thieves use other people’s personal information for many things. The most common use is credit card fraud. After obtaining a target’s personal details, thieves can open new lines of credit, hijack existing credit card accounts, and continue spending with other people’s money. Here’s an overview of several tactics identity thieves use to commit credit … Read more

Manual Credit Card Printers Are Becoming Obsolete

Since the introduction of credit cards in the 1960s, cards have had the card number, expiration date, and the cardholder’s name embossed or raised on the surface of the plastic card. Mechanical devices were developed and used to print credit card charge slips from those raised alphanumerics. Those slips were then deposited into the merchant’s … Read more

Do you know your VantageScore?

For more than fifty years, your credit score has been calculated using Fair Isaac & Company’s system and is therefore commonly described as your FICO score. There is now a new system known as VantageScore. It is over a year old having been launched in March 2006. So why was there a need for a … Read more