Don Morgan grew up on a ranch in Wyoming and, for a time, was a professional on the rodeo circuit. Based in Bismarck, the CEO of Bank of North Dakota is about 1,600 miles from technology hotbeds New York and San Francisco. It’s hardly the profile of a guy you’d expect to be on the frontlines of a cryptocurrency revolution. Yet there Morgan was last summer, making state-owned BND the guinea pig for a pilot with core technology provider Fiserv, using a blockchain-enabled payment rail for a bank-to-bank transfer within the state. Things look promising, and he foresees more pilots…

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John Engen

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John Engen is a contributing writer for Bank Director. He has more than 30 years of experience as a business journalist, writing for a variety of newspapers and magazines, and was a foreign correspondent for the Associated Press. He graduated with a degree in economics and international relations from the University of Minnesota and did his post-graduate work in Asian studies at the University of Hawai’i.