Regulators on Friday issued an order exempting banks from the requirement to collect taxpayer identification numbers, or TINs, directly from customers before opening an account under the Customer ...

The Financial Stability Board has set a March deadline for financial companies to have "legal entity identifiers," in place for use in transactions. These codes, something like a social security ...

Ever tried filing taxes, opening a U.S. bank account, or applying for a loan and hit a wall because you don’t have a Social Security Number? That’s where a taxpayer identification number (or TIN) can ...

The ability to identify which bank issued a credit or debit card gives small business owners one more tool to protect themselves from fraud. On a Visa card, the issuing bank may be identified on the ...

To the untrained eye, credit card numbers might appear to be nothing but a series of random numbers haphazardly thrown together. But they are anything but: Credit card numbers are created using ...