GoBank Wins in Best Check Innovation Category
PASADENA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar. 22, 2016--
Green
Dot Corporation (NYSE:GDOT) today announced that its GoBank mobile
checking account was honored at the 2016 PYMNTS
Innovator Awards in the Best Check Innovation category. Announced at
a live ceremony and awards dinner on March 17, 2016, GoBank
was presented with the category’s bronze award for its introduction of
pre-authorized check-writing technology that provides additional
security for customers and merchants.
The PYMNTS Innovator Awards are viewed as one of the most prestigious
recognitions in the payments industry and the ceremony marked the
conclusion of Innovation
Project 2016, a two-day thought leadership event for payments
executives. Steve Streit, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Green
Dot, spoke at the summit on the topic of using innovative financial
technology for financial inclusion, joining a prestigious faculty
of speakers at the event.
About Green Dot Corporation
Green Dot Corporation, along with its wholly owned subsidiary bank,
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.
locations, including retailers, neighborhood financial service center
locations, and tax preparation offices, as well as online, in the
leading app stores and through leading online tax preparation providers.
Green Dot Corporation is headquartered in Pasadena, Calif., with
additional facilities throughout the United States and in Shanghai,
China.
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