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Identify Theft – What should small business owners do to protect themselves?

Protecting your social security number may not be the only number to safeguard if you run a business.  Your company may have an Employee Identification Number (EIN), which is the business version of a social security number and used to identify it.  An EIN is needed to open bank accounts or take out credit, but it doesn't have the same protections that an individual's social security number benefits from.  Theft of EINs allows fraudsters to potentially open up lines of credit in the company's name or empty bank accounts.

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Opinion: EMV Shift: Should You Wait Until 2020?

There was a collective sigh of relief on Dec. 1, when Visa, followed quickly by MasterCard, announced a shift in the forecourt gas-pump liability date from 2017 to 2020. I believe there also was a smile in some boardrooms, as retailers that already have invested see an opportunity to capture gallons and inside sales. 

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