PASADENA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 27, 2016--
Green
Dot Corporation (NYSE:GDOT) today announced it has been chosen by
Paybefore as a 2016
Pay Awards winner in three categories for its mobile bank account, GoBank,
and industry-leading reload network, the Green Dot Network. Awards
include:
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“Judges’ Choice” – PayPal
Cash powered by Green Dot @ the Register: This special
category which cannot be entered, was created by the expert judging
panel to recognize outstanding programs from across the competition.
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“The Best Mobile App” – GoBank with MasterCard: This award
honors the best mobile app platform supporting prepaid, loyalty or
gift cards that enhances the cardholder experience and drives usage
and retention.
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“Consumer Champion” – GoBank with MasterCard: This category
recognizes the card or program that delivers the best consumer value
proposition for features, functionality, service and price.
“Green Dot continues to focus on creating technology-powered financial
products that deliver simple, convenient and easy-to-use solutions for
our customers,” said Steve Streit, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
of Green Dot. “We are proud to have received these distinctions and
appreciate Paybefore’s recognition of our mission to reinvent personal
banking for the masses.”
“We’ve been recognizing excellence and innovation in payments for 10
years. Once again, we saw nominees from across the globe tackling
payments problems with mastery and ingenuity,” says Loraine DeBonis,
Paybefore editor-in-chief and chair of the judging panel. “From Silicon
Valley startups to established powerhouses, the winners in this year’s
competition reflect a dynamic industry with no sign of slowing its pace
of expansion and change. We’re proud to recognize Green Dot
Corporation’s contributions to advancing electronic payments.”
GoBank and PayPal Cash (powered by Green Dot @ the Register) now vie for
Best-in-Category distinctions, which will be announced during the Pay
Awards ceremony on March 21 at the All
Payments Expo. Visitors to Paybefore.com
will have a chance to vote on Best in Category through Feb. 29.
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 media
properties includes: Paybefore.com; Pay News; Pay Gov; Pay Week; Pay
Op-Ed; Pay Magazine, Pay Awards Magazine and a global payments
directory, Pay Connect available online. Visit us at www.paybefore.com.
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Source: Green Dot Corporation
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