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Ripple Hits a Bump: Digital currency startup Ripple Labs touts a focus on compliance as one of its distinguishing traits, which makes it surprising the company has just become the first virtual currency exchange to be slapped with a civil action. Ripple Labs has agreed to pay $700,000 and improve its anti-money laundering program as part of a settlement with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network and the Department of Justice. U.S. authorities...