CreditAssure
CreditAssure was Credit Assure International, Inc., a company controlled by Maynard L. Dokken (often written Maynard Dokken).[1][2] This site is a historical record of the company and its name, 1998 to 2002, as the documents of the time show them.
A record of what the documents show
CreditAssure is not operating at this time.
What CreditAssure was
Milinx’s filings record Credit Assure International, Inc. as a company affiliated with Milinx Business Group, Inc., under the control of Maynard L. Dokken.[1][2] By Maynard L. Dokken’s account, it was the company formed while Assured Card’s work was moving into a public company.[3]
It carried the CreditAssure name, which Milinx licensed in March 1999.[1] In October 1999 Milinx acquired its assets, including the worldwide rights to the CreditAssure trademark.[4]
Under Milinx, the name continued as CreditAssure Financial, the subsidiary named in the Heartland merchant-account alliance of October 2000.[5]
Milinx’s reverse-merger filing of January 2000 listed Credit Assure International as a holder of 20% of Milinx.[6] In November 2001 Milinx’s annual report gave its address as 300-1045 Howe Street, Vancouver, and Maynard L. Dokken’s share of it as about 79%.[2]
At a glance
| Date | What the record shows |
|---|---|
| 8 March 1994 | Assured Card’s company was registered in British Columbia.[7] |
| 21 September 1998 | Assured Card Corporation filed ASSURED CREDIT CARD in the United States, for consumer lending services.[8][9] |
| 29 October 1998 | Assured Card Corporation filed CREDIT ASSURE in Canada, for consumer lending services, namely providing lines of credit.[10] |
| December 1998 | assuredcard.com and assuredcredit.com both showed a site titled “Welcome to CreditAssure Card”.[11][12] |
| 15 March 1999 | Milinx took an exclusive licence of the CreditAssure trademark from Credit Assure International, Inc.[1] |
| 2 September 1999 | Credit Assure Financial (Canada) Inc. was incorporated in British Columbia, as Milinx’s list of subsidiaries records.[2] |
| 15 October 1999 | Milinx acquired Credit Assure International’s assets for 50,000 common shares.[4] |
| January 2000 | Milinx’s reverse-merger filing listed Credit Assure International as a holder of 20% of Milinx.[6] |
| 2 October 2000 | Heartland Payment Systems announced an alliance with Milinx subsidiary CreditAssure Financial, Inc.[5] |
| 27 December 2000 | The assignment of the Canadian CREDIT ASSURE application to Milinx Business Group was recorded.[10] |
| 16 November 2001 | Milinx’s annual report gave Credit Assure International’s address as 300-1045 Howe Street, Vancouver.[2] |
| 30 January 2002 | The Canadian CREDIT ASSURE application was abandoned.[10] |
The record
The full timeline from 1994 to 2002, with a source for every sentence, is on The Record. The card and its trademarks are on The Card, and the licence, the purchase and the years under Milinx are on Into Milinx.
Assured Card’s own record is at assuredcard.co, Assured Credit’s at assuredcredit.co, and Milinx’s at milinx.co.
References
Numbered in citation order; the arrows lead back to the places that cite each source. Every source is described on Sources.
- ↑ a b c d Form 10-K for the year to 30 June 2000. SEC EDGAR, CIK 1088815, accession 0001096906-00-000256, filed 13 October 2000.
- ↑ a b c d e Form 10-K for the year to 30 June 2001, with Exhibit 21 (subsidiaries). SEC EDGAR, CIK 1088815, accession 0001096906-01-500480, filed 16 November 2001.
- ↑ Maynard L. Dokken’s account. his own account, given for this record, November 2026; not a document of the time.
- ↑ a b Form 10-QSB for the quarter to 31 December 1999. SEC EDGAR, CIK 1088815, accession 0000891020-00-000338, filed 22 February 2000.
- ↑ a b Milinx press release of 2 October 2000, “Heartland Payment Systems in Alliance with Milinx Subsidiary CreditAssure”. Internet Archive, Milinx press page, captured 21 January 2001.
- ↑ a b Form 8-K12G3, the reverse merger with Forestay Corporation (period 9 December 1999). SEC EDGAR, CIK 1088815 (filed under the name Forestay Corp), accession 0000891020-00-000041, filed 14 January 2000.
- ↑ BC company BC0468224, Assured Card Coordinating Services Inc. BC Registries, OrgBook BC, registered 8 March 1994; record read 14 November 2026.
- ↑ ASSURED CREDIT CARD (words), US serial 75559331. USPTO, Trademark Status and Document Retrieval, filed 21 September 1998; record read 14 November 2026.
- ↑ ASSURED CREDIT CARD (design), US serial 75559348. USPTO, Trademark Status and Document Retrieval, filed 21 September 1998; record read 14 November 2026.
- ↑ a b c CREDIT ASSURE, Canadian application 894941. Canadian Intellectual Property Office, Canadian Trademarks Database, filed 29 October 1998; record read 14 November 2026.
- ↑ assuredcard.com, opening page. Internet Archive, captured 6 December 1998.
- ↑ assuredcredit.com, opening page. Internet Archive, captured 6 December 1998.