Financial Services

Greenlight Debit Card Corporate Office

Greenlight Financial makes a debit card for minors that parents can control to help kids learn about spending and saving.

The company was founded in 2014 by current President and COO Johnson Cook and CEO Timothy Sheehan.

The company uses Mastercard services only and card services are provided by and FDIC insured through Community Federal Savings Bank.

Greenlight Educational Savings Account for Kids, founded in 2018, allows parents to incentivize saving through parent-paid interest. Through the app, kids can set savings goals for specific purposes which will also earn the parent-paid interest.

For $5 per month, the company will issue up to 5 debit cards to family members.

Greenlight claims it has 4.5 million paid users as of October 2021.

In September 2021, the company’s valuation nearly doubled to $2.3 billion after raising another $260 million in Series D funding.

Greenlight Debit Card maintains a corporate office in Atlanta, Georgia.

Greenlight Debit Card

Greenlight Financial makes a debit card for minors that parents can control to help kids learn about spending and saving.

The company was founded in 2014 by current President and COO Johnson Cook and CEO Timothy Sheehan.

The company uses Mastercard services only and card services are provided by and FDIC insured through Community Federal Savings Bank.

History

For $5 per month, the company will issue up to 5 debit cards to family members.

Greenlight claims it has 4.5 million paid users as of October 2021.

In September 2021, the company’s valuation nearly doubled to $2.3 billion after raising another $260 million in Series D funding.

Greenlight Debit Card maintains a corporate office in Atlanta, Georgia.

Upgrade.Com Corporate Office

Upgrade.Com was founded in 2016 by Renaud Laplanche, Jeff Bogan, Visar Nimani, & Adelina Grozdanova. The company operates a neobank that offers credit and banking products to consumers and delivers fixed-rate credit cards and loans.

Upgrade also offers other services, including credit monitoring and financial education tools for consumers.

In October 2021, Nilson reported that the Upgrade.Com Visa card was the fastest-growing Visa card in the US.

Upgrade has raised $200 million in equity funding since and made over $3 billion in loans since its launch in 2017.

In June 2020, Upgrade received a $1 billion valuation in a Series D equity round led by Santander Group.

Upgrade stated in October of 2021 that the company was introducing a new payment plan that allowed customers to pay for purchases in 4 monthly installments and not be charged any interest or other fees.

Upgrade.Com maintains a corporate office in San Francisco, California.

Upgrade.Com

Upgrade also offers other services, including credit monitoring and financial education tools for consumers.

In October 2021, Nilson reported that the Upgrade.Com Visa card was the fastest-growing Visa card in the US.

History

Upgrade has raised $200 million in equity funding since and made over $3 billion in loans since its launch in 2017.

In June 2020, Upgrade received a $1 billion valuation in a Series D equity round led by Santander Group.

Upgrade.Com maintains a corporate office in San Francisco, California.

Netspend Corporate Office

Immigrant brothers from Mexico, Bert and Roy Sosa, were attending college when they realized that many of their friends were unable to purchase items online because they had no credit cards or bank accounts. Using their pooled money of $750, they founded Netspend in 1999.

While the Sosa’s originally planned to sell their prepaid cards to students, they quickly realized that they could reach a much larger base by offering them online to anyone without a bank account, credit card, or those who don’t want to deal with those institutions but need another option to purchase items besides cash.

The company offers a prepaid Visa or Mastercard, which requires a small fee to open the account and charges a fee each time it is used. Netspend recently partnered with Family Dollar and 7-Eleven to sell their cards in their stores.

Netspend accounts can be managed online or via mobile phone apps. The company was acquired by TSYS in 2013 for $1.4 billion in cash.

Netspend was forced to refund more than $13 million in fees after the FTC filed charges claiming that the company withheld funds that caused some consumers severe financial difficulties.

In October 2018, the company experienced a technical issue that prevented an unknown number of cardholders from accessing their accounts or the ability to withdraw cash.

In October 2020, the parent company Global Payments stated that the company was considering selling off NetSpend.

Some Netspend users are unhappy with the service and they move their money to PayPal instead.

Headquarters for Netspend will remain in Austin, Texas.

Netspend

History

Netspend accounts can be managed online or via mobile phone apps. The company was acquired by TSYS in 2013 for $1.4 billion in cash.

Netspend was forced to refund more than $13 million in fees after the FTC filed charges claiming that the company withheld funds that caused some consumers severe financial difficulties.

In October 2018, the company experienced a technical issue that prevented an unknown number of cardholders from accessing their accounts or the ability to withdraw cash.

In October 2020, the parent company Global Payments stated that the company was considering selling off NetSpend.

Some Netspend users are unhappy with the service and they move their money to PayPal instead.

Headquarters for Netspend will remain in Austin, Texas.

CreditRepair.Com Corporate Office

CreditRepair.Com was founded in 1997 by current CEO Daniel Rosen. The company helps consumers address credit disputes or other issues to improve overall credit scores.

The company offers a free overview of a client’s current credit status, then offers options for basic, moderate, or aggressive credit repair based on the client’s needs.

CreditRepair.Com is known for running amusing ads featuring clueless consumers on popular TV programs, such as MSNBC.

The company currently has a “D” rating from the Better Business Bureau.

There are several online sites, including the Los Angeles Times, that lists CreditRepair.Com as one of the top credit repair agencies in the US.

In May 2019, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau filed a lawsuit against CreditRepair.Com and Lexington Law, stating that these companies were using deceptive advertising to cheat consumers.

CreditRepair.com maintains a corporate office in West Valley City, Utah.

CreditRepair.Com

CreditRepair.Com was founded in 1997 by current CEO Daniel Rosen. The company helps consumers address credit disputes or other issues to improve overall credit scores.

The company offers a free overview of a client’s current credit status, then offers options for basic, moderate, or aggressive credit repair based on the client’s needs.

CreditRepair.Com is known for running amusing ads featuring clueless consumers on popular TV programs, such as MSNBC.

History

The company currently has a “D” rating from the Better Business Bureau.

There are several online sites, including the Los Angeles Times, that lists CreditRepair.Com as one of the top credit repair agencies in the US.

In May 2019, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau filed a lawsuit against CreditRepair.Com and Lexington Law, stating that these companies were using deceptive advertising to cheat consumers.

CreditRepair.com maintains a corporate office in West Valley City, Utah.

TIAA Corporate Office

Andrew Carnegie created the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America (TIAA), a fully funded system of pensions for professors, in 1918.

Conservative investing helped the company survive the 1929 stock market crash and the Great Depression.

Today, TIAA is a Fortune 100 financial services organization that is the leading provider of financial services in the academic, research, medical, cultural, and governmental fields. The company serves over 5 million active and retired employees participating at more than 15,000 institutions and has $1 trillion in combined assets, with holdings in more than 50 countries.

In February 2018, TIAA was providing parental leave irrespective of the parent’s gender.

In late 2020, the company announced that it would no longer be in the business of home loan mortgages. This meant that at least 200 jobs would be eliminated.

In June 2021, CEO Thasunda Brown Duckett asked members of Congress to include in any future infrastructure legislation a bipartisan initiative called IGNITE – the Institutional Grants for New Infrastructure, Technology and Education for HBCU Excellence Act.

TIAA maintains a corporate office in New York, New York.

TIAA

Andrew Carnegie created the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America (TIAA), a fully funded system of pensions for professors, in 1918.

Conservative investing helped the company survive the 1929 stock market crash and the Great Depression.

History

In February 2018, TIAA was providing parental leave irrespective of the parent’s gender.

In late 2020, the company announced that it would no longer be in the business of home loan mortgages. This meant that at least 200 jobs would be eliminated.

TIAA maintains a corporate office in New York, New York.