Banking

Green Dot Bank Corporate Office

Steve Streit founded Green Dot in 1999. The first debit card was called I-Gen and it was sold the following year.

Green Dot is the largest prepaid debit card company in the world.

Streit’s original business plan was to target teenagers and those who wanted to shop safely online.

In 2010, Green Dot Corporation went public on the NYSE under the ticker symbol GDOT with a valuation of $2 billion.

Since its inception, Green Dot has acquired a number of companies in the mobile, financial, and tax industries including Loopt, AccountNow, AchieveCard, UniRush, and Sant Barbara Tax Products.

In 2016, Green Dot Corporation’s brand, GoBank, partnered with Uber to launch the ‘Uber Debit Card’ – a checking account for Uber drivers to immediately cash out their ride fares.

The company also offers MoneyPak. MoneyPak is used to deposit cash to Green Dot prepaid cards but it can also be used to deposit cash onto third-party prepaid or bank debit cards. MoneyPak is available in the same stores GreenDot prepaid is and most stores charge $5.95 for reloading.

MoneyPak has been plagued by scams, however.

Walmart also created a partnership with Green Dot offering MoneyCard a reloadable prepaid debit card both online and in Walmart stores.

In October 2022, Green Dot unexpectedly fired its executive staff, replacing the CEO, CFO, and COO with George Gresham.

Green Dot recently moved its corporate office from Pasadena, California, to Austin, Texas.

Credit One Bank Corporate Office

Credit One Bank was founded in San Rafael, California, in 1984. This full-service bank was originally named First National Bank of Marin. The name was changed in 2006.

The company is an American-based bank and financial services company that focuses on borrowers who have low credit scores.

Credit One is often confused with Capital One, especially since the names and logos are similar.

In 2018, Credit One moved its corporate office from San Rafael, California, to Las Vegas, Nevada.

In 2021, the company expanded its headquarters to employ more personnel.

In 2020, finance experts at The Motley Fool handed out a one-star (out of five) review of Credit One Bank’s credit card. The review praised the bank for making the card available to customers with poor credit and for offering cash-back incentives while criticizing the card’s complicated application process and high fees.

Credit One Bank maintains its corporate office in Las Vegas, Nevada.

JP Morgan Corporate Office

Originally founded in 1799 as The Bank of Manhattan, the name was changed to JP Morgan when John Pierpont Morgan purchased the bank in 1877.

As of 2022, JP Morgan is the largest banking institution in the United States and the 5th largest bank in the world.

The J.P. Morgan bank is used by investment banking, asset management, private banking, private wealth management, and treasury services divisions.

In 2000, J.P. Morgan merged with Chase Manhattan Bank, thereby forming the J.P. Morgan Chase Bank.

The Chase brand is used for credit card services in the United States and Canada, along with retail and commercial banking services in the UK and the United States.

Both the retail and commercial bank and the bank’s corporate office are currently located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City after the previous headquarters, located across the street, was demolished. A new headquarters building is being built on the same street.

In September 2022, the company invested $20 million in the digital health company Let’s Get Checked.

Also in September 2022, J.P. Morgan investing experts stated that the company highly recommends energy stocks.

J.P. Morgan currently maintains a corporate office on Madison Avenue in New York, New York.

Citizens Bank Online

Citizen’s Bank can trace its roots back to 1828, when a group of merchants founded the High Street Bank in Providence, Rhode Island. The name was changed to Citizens in 1871.

The bank then expanded through Rhode Island, opening a total of 29 branches in that state. It established Citizens Financial Group as a holding company when the bank acquired The Greenville Trust Company in 1954.

In 1985, Citizens changed status from a mutual savings bank to a federal stock savings bank. Expansion into other states began with Massachusetts in 1986.

In May 2017, The Wall Street Journal reported that the US Department of Justice requested records and documents from numerous banks, including Citizens, regarding the Trump 2016 campaign manager Paul Manafort’s transactions.

Manafort reportedly secured a 2.7 million-dollar loan from Citizens in 2016.

In February 2018, Bloomberg News stated that Citizens’ stock price dropped 4.1 percent after U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s indictment of Manafort was released, appearing to indicate that Citizens was the “Lender B” cited as having lent 3.4 million dollars to the former campaign manager of President Trump.

Citizens Bank has agreements with multiple grocery stores and other locations to have bank branches located inside their stores, including Giant Eagle, Stop & Shop, as well as Dunkin’ Donuts.

In April 2022, Forbes gave Citizens Bank a favorable review regarding the student loan process.

Citizens Bank maintains a corporate office in Providence, Rhode Island.

Neteller Corporate Office

Neteller was founded in Canada by Stephen Lawrence and John Lefebvre in 1999. The company operates an e-money transfer service allowing merchants to receive payments and consumers to transfer money for goods, services, or to other individuals.

In 2015, Optimal Payments Plc (now Paysafe Group) finalized a transformational transaction for the global payments industry – the acquisition of Skrill Group, one of Europe’s largest online payments systems and among the world’s largest independent digital wallet providers.

In July 2000, the company began to process online gambling payments.

At one point, the company was processing payments for 85% of the world’s gambling merchants and as much as 95% of the firm’s revenue at that time was derived from fund transfers to online gaming firms, with many users being U.S. residents.

The company was forced to move its operations from the US to England after being charged with money laundering.

In 2003 the company launched NetCard, later changed to Net+, as a means of allowing clients to withdraw cash at ATMs and use it at POP locations.

These are prepaid debit cards that allow clients to withdraw funds that are already in their Neteller accounts and not actual credit cards.

Neteller maintains a corporate office in London, UK.