PASADENA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 23, 2015--
Green Dot Corporation (NYSE:GDOT) today announced it has been chosen as
a 2015 Paybefore Awards winner in six categories, including “Change
Agent of the Year” and “Consumer Champion,” for its prepaid debit card
products, award-winning mobile bank account, GoBank, and Green
Dot-managed, Walmart Visa Gift Cards. Awards include:
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“Change Agent of the Year” - Green Dot Corporation: A new
category this year, this award recognizes the organization that pushed
the boundaries of prepaid innovation by creating out-of-the-box
solutions.
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“Consumer Connection” - Green Dot Prepaid Debit Card Tax Time 2014
Campaign: This award recognizes the most effective and exciting
consumer marketing campaign to generate prepaid and/or emerging
payments awareness, education or sales.
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“Top of Wallet” - Walmart MoneyCard®: This award recognizes the
everyday prepaid spending card/program with the right mix of features,
functionality and pricing.
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“Best Dressed” - Scented Walmart Visa Gift Cards: This award
honors the most impactful design of a prepaid form factor, such as a
card, fob or other means, and/or packaging to deliver a
prepaid/emerging payments card/program.
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“The Gotta-Have Mobile App” - GoBank: This award honors the
most exciting mobile app for enabling prepaid payments/transactions or
providing financial-related information.
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“Consumer Champion” – GoBank: This category recognizes the card
or program that delivers the best consumer value proposition for
features, functionality, service and price.
“We continually strive to raise the bar in the banking and payments
industries by providing consumers with simple, convenient and
easy-to-use financial solutions that play an important role in their
daily lives,” said Steve Streit, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of
Green Dot. “We are proud to have received these distinctions and are
deeply appreciative of Paybefore’s support of our mission to reinvent
personal banking for the masses.”
For nine years, the Paybefore Awards have conferred the most prestigious
recognition of excellence in the worldwide prepaid, mobile and emerging
payments industry. The awards are presented annually by Paybefore, the
leading information provider to prepaid, mobile and emerging payments
industry professionals. Green Dot and its products were selected by a
panel of five industry experts who served as judges for this year’s
competition, which—once again—included entries from around the world.
“This year’s Paybefore Awards have demonstrated once again that payments
companies are committed to driving out the inefficiencies of cash and
checks, while also increasing value for clients and end users,” said
Loraine DeBonis, Paybefore editor-in-chief and chair of the judging
panel. “We’re proud to recognize Green Dot’s contributions to advancing
electronic payments.”
“Some may think there’s nothing new in the world of payments, but the
outstanding winners in Paybefore Awards prove that’s not so,” added
Marilyn Bochicchio, Paybefore’s CEO. “Emerging payments is packed with
opportunity to make a difference for consumers, governments and
businesses. And, the companies and programs we recognize through
Paybefore Awards are outstanding examples of what can be done when
creativity intersects with technology and a deep understanding of unmet
needs. We tip our hats to the winners and all those who are making a
difference.”
Green Dot, GoBank, Walmart Visa Gift Card and Walmart Money Card, will
now vie for Best-in-Category distinction, which will be announced during
the Paybefore Awards ceremony on Feb. 24 at the All
Payments Expo. Visitors to Paybefore.com
will have a chance to vote on Best-in-Category through Jan. 28. The
outcome of this vote (counted as one-sixth of the total) will be
combined with the five judges’ picks to determine Best-in-Category
honorees.
About Green Dot Corporation
Green Dot Corporation, along with its wholly owned subsidiary, Green Dot
Bank, is a pro-consumer financial technology innovator with a mission to
reinvent personal banking for the masses. Green Dot invented the prepaid
debit card industry and is the largest provider of reloadable prepaid
debit cards and cash reload processing services in the United States.
Green Dot is also a leader in mobile technology and mobile banking with
its award-winning GoBank mobile checking account. Through its wholly
owned subsidiary, TPG, Green Dot is additionally the largest processor
of tax refund disbursements in the U.S. Green Dot's 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 25,000 tax preparation offices and
leading online tax preparation providers. Green Dot Corporation is
headquartered in Pasadena, Calif., with additional facilities throughout
the United States and in Shanghai, China.
About Paybefore: Paybefore is the leading information provider to
prepaid, mobile and emerging payments industry professionals, offering
the latest news, commentary and analysis. Paybefore’s family of industry
publications includes: Paybefore.com; Pay NewsTM; Pay GovTM;
Pay WeekTM; Pay Op-EdTM; Pay MagazineTM,
a biannual print publication featuring in-depth articles on the
opportunities, challenges and trends in the global payments industry;
and the only industry directory, Pay ConnectTM buyer’s guide,
available online and in print. Visit us at www.paybefore.com.
Source: Green Dot Corporation
Investor Relations:
Green Dot Corporation
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IR@greendot.com
or
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