Green Dot announced a new exclusive distribution agreement with Dollar Tree this morning.

Green Dot is matching NetSpend in the dollar store market. On May 10th, NetSpend announced a similar contract with Family Dollar.

The cards will be offered in the 4,351 Dollar Tree stores in the United States.The cards are supposed to (more…)

This interview took place at Tech Crunch over the winter. It is an interesting window to the relationship between entrepreneurship and the story of building a business to serve the growing unbanked and underbanked population.

“This company serves a demographic that isn’t necessarily well-represented in this room,” (more…)

With its purchase of Loopt, Green Dot appears to  (more…)

Hidden in its most recent 10-q, Green Dot reports that use of its cards and of its reload products surged.

Green Dot now has more than 5.5 million active general purpose re-loadable cards. (more…)

The Federal Reserve gave its approval to Green Dot’s acquisition of Bonneville Bancorp on Friday.

Green Dot will pay $15.7 million for Bonneville. The new entity will be renamed Green Dot Bank.

This is a significant event for Green Dot because it will allow them to capture more of the income (more…)