Green Dot Corp
Green Dot Corporation, along with its wholly-owned subsidiaries, is a pro-consumer
financial technology innovator with a mission to provide a full range of affordable
and accessible financial services to the masses. We are the largest provider
of reloadable prepaid debit cards and cash reload processing services in the
United States. We are also a leader in mobile technology and mobile banking
with our award-winning GoBank mobile checking account and a top 20 debit card
issuer among all banks and credit unions in the country. Through our wholly-owned
subsidiary, SBBT Holdings, LLC (“TPG”), we are also the largest
processor of tax refund disbursements in the U.S. Our products and services
are available to consumers through a large-scale "branchless bank"
distribution network of more than 100,000 U.S. retail locations, thousands of
neighborhood financial service center locations, online, in the leading app
stores, and through approximately 25,000 tax preparation offices and leading
online tax preparation providers.
The combination of our innovative products and services, broad retail distribution
and proprietary technology creates powerful network effects, which we believe
enhance the value we deliver to our customers, our retail distributors and other
participants in our network.
We were incorporated in Delaware in October 1999 as Next Estate Communications,
Inc. and changed our name to Green Dot Corporation in October 2005. We completed
our initial public offering of Class A common stock in July 2010. In December
2011, we became a bank holding company under the Bank Holding Company Act of
1956, as amended (the "BHC Act"), as a result of our acquisition of
Bonneville Bancorp, the holding company of Bonneville Bank, a state-chartered
Utah bank. The bank was subsequently renamed Green Dot Bank and we became a
member bank of the Federal Reserve System. In 2014 and 2015, we made four acquisitions,
including TPG, adding tax refund processing services to the range of products
and services we provide.
We provide customer service through numerous technologies and channels for
all of the products provided by our company to consumers. We utilize both in-house
and third-party call centers, as well as Interactive Voice Response systems,
web-based support and email support in our customer service efforts.
Our branded deposit account programs include Green Dot-branded and affinity-branded
general purpose reloadable ("GPR") card accounts, checking accounts
and open-loop gift cards. We also have the ability to provide private label
GPR card accounts on behalf of a retailer or other third party entity. Private
label cards generally bear the trademarks or logos of the retail distributor
or business entity, and our trademark on the packaging and back of the card.
These cards have the same features and characteristics as our Green Dot-branded
GPR cards, and are accepted at the same locations. We typically are responsible
for managing all aspects of these programs, including strategy, product design,
marketing, customer service, operations and compliance with our subsidiary bank
serving as the cards issuer. Currently, our only private label program is the
Walmart MoneyCard.