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North Dakota issues Cease Order to Union Bank Payment Coin

The Paypers

(The Paypers) North Dakota’s securities commissioner has issued Russia’s Union Bank Payment Coin with a Cease and Desist Order, after a potentially fraudulent act.

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Bitcoin Daily: DOJ Probes Tether Cryptocurrency; Bitcoin Price Slides To Under $4.3K

PYMNTS

In other news, the North Dakota Securities Department has brought a cease-and-desist order against an initial coin offering (ICO) project called the Union Bank Payment Coin (UBPC), CoinDesk reported. According to the outlet, the ICO purportedly said that it is the “world’s first security token backed by a fully licensed bank.”

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Bitcoin Daily: Bitcoin Loses $18M, Microsoft Uses Blockchain To Give Consumers More Control Over Personal Data

PYMNTS

And the North Dakota Securities Department announced that it has issued cease and desist orders against three companies for offering “unregistered and potentially fraudulent securities in the form of ICOs.”. and Canadian securities regulators.

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FBI Probing Hack Of US Electricity Providers

PYMNTS

The impacted utilities operate in 18 states from Maine to Washington, including Cloverland Electric Cooperation in Michigan, Klickitat Public Utility District in Washington state and Basin Electric Power Cooperative in North Dakota. Attackers briefly identified intended targets on an exposed server in Hong Kong.

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Durbin interchange battles resurface

CFPB Monitor

The North Dakota Retail Association and North Dakota Petroleum Marketers Association filed a lawsuit on April 29, 2021 against the Federal Reserve Board in a North Dakota federal district court seeking to invalidate Regulation II’s standard for reasonable and proportional interchange fees. New Lawsuit.

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Young Consumers Love to “Buy Now, Pay Later” – Here’s What to Know About the Explosive Fintech Trend

Perficient

Pay in 4 is not currently available for residents of Missouri, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin, or any US Territories. But, the reality was, even though I felt more financially secure, I wasn’t technically in any less debt than I would have been had I just bought the shoes outright.

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The United States Of Startups: The Most Well-Funded Tech Startup In Every US State

CB Insights

The others include: Vox Media , Magic Leap , GreenSky , Avant , DraftKings , Duo Security , Infor , AvidXChange , and Domo. The least-funded VC-backed startup on the list is North Dakota’s CoSchedule with $2.7M. Tenable Network Security. Duo Security. $ North Carolina. North Dakota.