Travel-Related Business and Merchant Accounts

When it comes to all types of companies, their business merchant services help them process payments, obtain merchant cash advances…

Is Your Business Ready For Holiday Shopping Season

The holiday shopping season has begun, and every retail business is gearing up for a busy fourth quarter. However, looking back to the last holiday season…

Singles Day and Holiday Readiness (updated)

Last year, as we turned the corner on Halloween, we noted the growing popularity of “Singles Day,” that online shopping extravaganza that has become…

The Equifax Breach and Your Business

As one of the three major credit monitoring and reporting entities, this organization is tasked with tracking and rating the financial history of consumers.

Now That Future’s Passed: A Look Back at 2017 (updated)

“It’s going to get worse before it gets better,” we wrote as 2016 became 2017, citing a Guardian article that had proclaimed our previous year…

Breach Days: Equifax and Beyond (updated)

When this post first appeared last summer, we called it “The Breach Days of August,” sounding various alarums from what had…

Things to Know About Protecting Your Merchant Account

As a business owner, you know that your merchant bank account is crucial for your payment processing and financial solvency.

September of Our Year: EMVs Delayed, Storms Felt (updated)

In last fall’s Labor Day survey, we wrote that the unspoken rule was to put white clothing away until Memorial Day…

Data Breaches Hit “All Time High” — Can We Keep Them From Getting Worse? (Updated)

All Time High was a good name for a James Bond film theme. But it’s an unwelcome descriptor for a trend in data breaches…