Resources & Useful Links
- Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce
- Rockville Chamber of Commerce
- McLean Chamber of Commerce
- Gaithersburg-Germantown Chamber of Commerce
- Maryland Bankers Association
- FDIC
- OCC
- OCC's Site for National Bank Customers
- Federal Reserve Board
Helpful Information:
- Interest Rate Indices & Histories
- Maryland "At A Glance"
- Prepare Your Business and Family for Emergencies
- Local Weather
- FDIC Consumer News newsletter - FDIC Consumer News provides practical guidance on how to become a smarter, safer user of financial services. Each free issue offers helpful hints, quick tips, and common-sense strategies to protect and stretch your hard-earned dollars for both consumers and small business owners.
Information On Identity Theft and Other Scams:
Capital Bank takes the security of customer information seriously. Many of our business clients also have personal information about their customers and vendors in their offices on PC's, file cabinets, desks, laptops, USB thumbdrives, etc. This is information essential to your ability to provide services to your customers, but which may also be valuable to an identity thief. We provide you with the following resources to learn more about what you can do to protect the information about your customers, vendors and others and prevent that information from falling into the wrong hands.
Here are several links for documents and a tutorial provided by the Federal Trade Commission. There are additional links from these sites that you may find valuable:
- Protecting Personal Information: A Guide For Business - An Interactive tutorial
- Protecting Personal Information: A Guide For Business - A Downloadable brochure
- Legal Requirements for Businesses if Information Theft Occurs - Fair Credit Reporting Act requirements
- Security Steps for Your Business's Computers - Protect Your Business's and Customer Information on your company's PC's and network
For information on how to protect your own personal information and resources to learn about identity theft and other scams, what you can do to prevent becoming a victim and action steps to take if you should become a victim of identity theft, we offer the following links:
- Fight Back Against Identity Theft
- Vishing Scams - What is it, How to Protect Against It
- OCC's National Bank Anti-Fraud Resource Center
- FDIC Site on Identity Theft
- Identity Theft Resources
- Help Prevent Identity Theft From Phishing Scams
- Is It Truth Or Fiction? Verify whether that email offer or warning is a hoax or not
- Preventing Debit Card Fraud
- A powerpoint on how your ATM Card can be skimmed - Prevent ATM Scams (large file, 4.3megs)
