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•	Total operating revenues on a generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) basis increased 9% to $154.1 million for the first quarter of 2013 from $141.2 million for the first quarter of 2012

•	GAAP net income was $15.6 million for the first quarter of 2013 versus $16.4 million for the first quarter of 2012

•	GAAP basic and diluted earnings per common share were $0.36 and $0.35, respectively, for the first quarter of 2013 versus $0.39 and $0.37, respectively, for the first quarter of 2012

•	Non-GAAP total operating revenues1 increased 8% to $155.8 million for the first quarter of 2013 from $144.4 million for the first quarter of 2012

•	Non-GAAP net income1 was $18.5 million for the first quarter of 2013 versus $20.5 million for the first quarter of 2012

•	Non-GAAP diluted earnings per share1 were $0.42 for the first quarter of 2013 versus $0.46 for the first quarter of 2012

•	EBITDA plus employee stock-based compensation expense and stock-based retailer incentive compensation expense (adjusted EBITDA1) was $34.2 million for the first quarter of 2013 versus $36.0 million for the first quarter of 2012

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•	Number of cash transfers was 11.25 million for the first quarter of 2013, an increase of 1.16 million, or 11%, over the first quarter of 2012

•	Number of active cards at quarter end was 4.49 million, a decrease of 0.20 million, or 4%, over the first quarter of 2012

•	Gross dollar volume (GDV) was $5.1 billion for the first quarter of 2013, an increase of $249 million, or 5%, versus the first quarter of 2012

•	Purchase volume was $3.6 billion for the first quarter of 2013, an increase of $95 million, or 3%, over the first quarter of 2012

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As of the quarter ended March 31, 2013, Green Dot has 700,000 direct deposit customers with retention of approximately 20 months, and 2.1 million cash reloading customers with retention of approximately 9 months, for a blended retention of approximately 12 months. At 2.8 million reloading customers, Green Dot believes that its reloading customer base is larger than the entire customer base of any other company in the prepaid industry, with customer retention that is among the best in our industry

•	Green Dot remains on track to make its new mobile bank account product available to the general public this summer. The company plans to demonstrate the latest developments on GoBank at the Finovate financial technology conference in San Francisco on May 14th

•	Green Dot's new RushCard Live product in conjunction with UniRush LLC launched earlier this month and is now in the process of rolling out to more than 4,000 Rite Aid stores and 7,000 CVS/pharmacy stores nationwide. Green Dot believes RushCard Live will contribute to overall category growth in participating retailers over time

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(1)

To supplement the Company’s consolidated financial statements presented in accordance with GAAP, the Company uses measures of operating results that are adjusted to exclude various, primarily non-cash, expenses and charges. These financial measures are not calculated or presented in accordance with GAAP and should not be considered as alternatives to or substitutes for operating revenues, operating income, net income or any other measure of financial performance calculated and presented in accordance with GAAP. These financial measures may not be comparable to similarly-titled measures of other organizations because other organizations may not calculate their measures in the same manner as we do. These financial measures are adjusted to eliminate the impact of items that the Company does not consider indicative of its core operating performance. You are encouraged to evaluate these adjustments and the reasons we consider them appropriate.

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stock-based retailer incentive compensation is a non-cash GAAP accounting charge that is an offset to the Company’s actual revenues from operations as the Company has historically calculated them. This charge results from the monthly lapsing of the Company’s right to repurchase a portion of the 2,208,552 shares it issued to its largest distributor, Walmart, in May 2010. By adding back this charge to the Company’s GAAP 2010 and future total operating revenues, investors can make direct comparisons of the Company’s revenues from operations prior to and after May 2010 and thus more easily perceive trends in the Company’s core operations. Further, because the monthly charge is based on the then-current fair market value of the shares as to which the Company’s repurchase right lapses, adding back this charge eliminates fluctuations in the Company’s operating revenues caused by variations in its stock price and thus provides insight on the operating revenues directly associated with those core operations;

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the Company records employee stock-based compensation from period to period, and recorded employee stock-based compensation expenses of approximately $2.89 million and $3.49 million for the three-month periods ended March 31, 2013 and 2012, respectively. By comparing the Company’s adjusted EBITDA, non-GAAP net income and non-GAAP diluted earnings per share in different historical periods, investors can evaluate the Company’s operating results without the additional variations caused by employee stock-based compensation expense, which may not be comparable from period to period due to changes in the fair market value of the Company’s Class A common stock (which is influenced by external factors like the volatility of public markets and the financial performance of the Company’s peers) and is not a key measure of the Company’s operations;

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adjusted EBITDA is widely used by investors to measure a company’s operating performance without regard to items, such as interest expense, income tax expense, depreciation and amortization, employee stock-based compensation expense, and stock-based retailer incentive compensation expense, that can vary substantially from company to company depending upon their respective financing structures and accounting policies, the book values of their assets, their capital structures and the methods by which their assets were acquired; and

▪	securities analysts use adjusted EBITDA as a supplemental measure to evaluate the overall operating performance of companies.

▪	as measures of operating performance, because they exclude the impact of items not directly resulting from the Company’s core operations;

▪	for planning purposes, including the preparation of the Company’s annual operating budget;

▪	to allocate resources to enhance the financial performance of the Company’s business;

▪	to evaluate the effectiveness of the Company’s business strategies; and

▪	in communications with the Company’s board of directors concerning the Company’s financial performance.

▪	that these measures do not reflect the Company’s capital expenditures or future requirements for capital expenditures or other contractual commitments;

▪	that these measures do not reflect changes in, or cash requirements for, the Company’s working capital needs;

▪	that these measures do not reflect interest expense or interest income;

▪	that these measures do not reflect cash requirements for income taxes;

▪	that, although depreciation and amortization are non-cash charges, the assets being depreciated or amortized will often have to be replaced in the future, and these measures do not reflect any cash requirements for these replacements; and

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▪	that other companies in the Company’s industry may calculate these measures differently than the Company does, limiting their usefulness as comparative measures.

(2)

This expense consists of the recorded fair value of the shares of Class A common stock for which the Company’s right to repurchase has lapsed pursuant to the terms of the May 2010 agreement under which they were issued to Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., a contra-revenue component of the Company’s total operating revenues. Prior to the three months ended June 30, 2010, the Company did not record stock-based retailer incentive compensation expense. The Company will, however, continue to incur this expense through May 2015. In future periods, the Company does not expect this expense will be comparable from period to period due to changes in the fair value of its Class A common stock. The Company will also have to record additional stock-based retailer incentive compensation expense to the extent that a warrant to purchase its Class B common stock vests and becomes exercisable upon the achievement of certain performance goals by PayPal. The Company does not believe these non-cash expenses are reflective of ongoing operating results.

(3)	The Company does not include any income tax impact of the associated non-GAAP adjustment to non-GAAP total operating revenues or adjusted EBITDA, as the case may be, because each of these non-GAAP financial measures is provided before income tax expense.

(4)

This expense consists primarily of expenses for employee stock options. Employee stock-based compensation expense is not comparable from period to period due to changes in the fair market value of the Company’s Class A common stock (which is influenced by external factors like the volatility of public markets and the financial performance of the Company’s peers) and is not a key measure of the Company’s operations. The Company excludes employee stock-based compensation expense from its non-GAAP financial measures primarily because it consists of non-cash expenses that the Company does not believe are reflective of ongoing operating results. Further, the Company believes that it is useful to investors to understand the impact of employee stock-based compensation to its results of operations.

(5)

These amounts represent estimated adjustments for net interest income, income taxes, depreciation and amortization, employee stock-based compensation expense, and stock-based retailer incentive compensation expense. Employee stock-based compensation expense and stock-based retailer incentive compensation expense include assumptions about the future fair market value of the Company’s Class A common stock (which is influenced by external factors like the volatility of public markets and the financial performance of the Company’s peers).