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Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract] |
Organization | Organization Green Dot Corporation (“we,” “our,” or “us” refer to Green Dot Corporation and its consolidated subsidiaries) is a pro-consumer financial technology innovator with a mission to reinvent personal banking for the masses. We offer consumers our broad collection of financial products and services through a widely-available “branchless distribution network” in the United States. Our branchless network consists of:
• | distribution arrangements with approximately 100,000 mostly major chain retail locations, which we refer to as “retail distributors” and thousands of neighborhood Financial Service Center locations;
• | several differently branded, Green Dot-owned and operated direct-to-consumer online and direct mail customer acquisition platforms;
• | businesses that provide payroll cards to their employees to receive wage disbursements;
• | more than 25,000 small and large tax preparation companies and individual tax preparers, known as electronic return originators, or “EROs”, who are able to offer our products and services to their customers through the use of various tax preparation industry software packages with which our products are integrated; and
• | apps compatible with the iOS and Android operating systems downloaded through the corresponding app store.
Our products and services include: several deposit account programs, such as network-branded reloadable prepaid debit cards marketed under several leading consumer brand names, collectively referred to as "GPR cards," checking accounts, network-branded gift cards (known as open-loop), secured credit cards and other financial services. We also offer several products and services that specialize in moving cash on behalf of consumers and businesses. These products and services include our proprietary swipe reload system for crediting cash onto an enabled payment card by swiping that payment card at the point-of-sale at Green Dot Network participating retailers; MoneyPak, a product that allows a consumer to credit cash to another consumer's debit card; and e-cash, a remittance product that allows a consumer to send or receive cash using a Green Dot generated bar code or claim number sent to the recipient’s smartphone that is then scanned and fulfilled at a Green Dot participating retailer. We refer to these services collectively as our cash transfer products. In addition to payroll cards, we also offer wage disbursement services on behalf of businesses needing to route money to their workers on an expedited basis.

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