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• BUKD-F744 1030 - 3 Cr.
  Financial Strategy and Corporate Restructuring (Randall Heron)
  12/7/2015 - 2/27/2016

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• In fiscal 2015, approximately 83.1% of the Company's loans were generated through refinancings of outstanding loans and the origination of new loans to previous customers.

• Insight Holding Company LLC Acquisition.  In November 2011, we purchased a 22.5% interest in Insight Holding, which is the parent company of, among other entities, Insight, for which we are an agent of its prepaid card product. We believe this investment aligns our strategic interests and positions us to participate in the value creation at Insight.

• In May 2010, we issued to Walmart 2,208,552 shares of our Class A common stock, subject to our right to repurchase them at $0.01 per share upon a qualifying termination of our prepaid card program agreement with Walmart and GE Capital Retail Bank, formerly GE Money Bank. We recognize each month the fair value of the 36,810 shares issued to Walmart for which our right to repurchase has lapsed using the then-current fair market value of our Class A common stock (and we would be required to recognize the fair value of all shares still subject to repurchase if there were an early expiration of our right to repurchase, which could occur if we experienced certain changes in our control or under certain other limited circumstances, such as a termination of our commercial agreement with Walmart and GE Capital Retail Bank). We record the fair value recognized as stock-based retailer incentive compensation, a contra-revenue component of our total operating revenues.

• as the company gets bigger, the industry gets bigger. It not only grows with customers but it grows with crooks and any bank, I don't care if you're us or Chase or anybody else. You have a whole rack of electronics and monitoring gear that's designed to find unusual activity and things that don't add up. And it's just our concern that we see data breaches happen and by the way, to be clear, there's no regulator who tells you to do this, it's something the bank decides to do based on its own beliefs about how it protects its business. And so I want to be clear, this is sort of self-inflicted but still the right thing to do. As the company gets bigger and you see that you can steal anybody's name and social security number off the Internet from any number of data breaches, it doesn't make me feel good as CEO of a bank holding the company that every person who passes an Equifax screen is who they say are because I may have your name and social security number. So that means you have to look further by aggregating back end IP addresses and computer addresses and all kinds of usage behavior, the time and day that you're activating the card, there's 50 different things that go into it. Now maybe it'll be that the systems are dialed up a bit high and we may, in fact, dial them up the other way if we find that we're being overly conservative. But that's what happened in Q1 and Q2. And keep in mind, this system is fairly new. We just started implementing this in Q2. So I'm not saying it will be as severe as it is and it may back up. But it is what happened and we think we caught up some good customers. We think we caught up some customers as we're looking for a way to use the card in a way that we're not intending it to be used.
• Well, the majority of our retailer distribution today is -- a good question because you have some that are contractually exclusive and then others that are not, but thejust don't sell anyone else. But let me say -- maybe I should say this, so the majority of our sales come from retailers today where we're the only product on the shelf.
• . We've been testing this zero [ph] price card at Walgreens, Rite Aid, and maybe some other chains and we're going to continue to test those, at least it's been in process now for some time because we do want to find a sweet spot of pricing that encourages the most acquisition and retention.
• It's one of the challenges is that you have the headline price, meaning the price on the package that the consumer may see, the consumer, depending on the brand of product, may not fully understand what the ongoing usage price is on the back of the package or what might I pay from months or what might I pay for an out of network ATM. And knowing price of the products to be the cheapest and we typically get recognition therein, in terms of how you use the product, but the headline price is something that we know consumers are susceptible to and that's why we've been experimenting with this in kind of the fee policies at retail.
• I mean, the story of the IPO and since then of your company and a whole box crux of it was the benefit of your business model and this commission structure and exclusive contracts with retailers. And they want to partner with you and just you because you build up this base of customers and it's like an new stream because they're going to be sharing in the whole revenue model with you, and that seemed to be the case for a while. And now, that seems -- I mean, are you worried that, that entire -- the entire foundation of your business is possibly breaking down?
• as the company gets bigger, the industry gets bigger. It not only grows with customers but it grows with crooks and any bank, I don't care if you're us or Chase or anybody else. You have a whole rack of electronics and monitoring gear that's designed to find unusual activity and things that don't add up. And it's just our concern that we see data breaches happen and by the way, to be clear, there's no regulator who tells you to do this, it's something the bank decides to do based on its own beliefs about how it protects its business. And so I want to be clear, this is sort of self-inflicted but still the right thing to do. As the company gets bigger and you see that you can steal anybody's name and social security number off the Internet from any number of data breaches, it doesn't make me feel good as CEO of a bank holding the company that every person who passes an Equifax screen is who they say are because I may have your name and social security number. So that means you have to look further by aggregating back end IP addresses and computer addresses and all kinds of usage behavior, the time and day that you're activating the card, there's 50 different things that go into it. Now maybe it'll be that the systems are dialed up a bit high and we may, in fact, dial them up the other way if we find that we're being overly conservative. But that's what happened in Q1 and Q2. And keep in mind, this system is fairly new. We just started implementing this in Q2. So I'm not saying it will be as severe as it is and it may back up. But it is what happened and we think we caught up some good customers. We think we caught up some customers as we're looking for a way to use the card in a way that we're not intending it to be used.
• As the company gets bigger and you see that you can steal anybody's name and social security number off the Internet from any number of data breaches, it doesn't make me feel good as CEO of a bank holding the company that every person who passes an Equifax screen is who they say are because I may have your name and social security number. So that means you have to look further by aggregating back end IP addresses and computer addresses and all kinds of usage behavior, the time and day that you're activating the card, there's 50 different things that go into it.

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• First, as we previously announced, we have made efforts to strengthen our risk policies and controls to ensure a high-quality and more sustainable business. While these controls have improved the security and quality of our portfolio, they have also impacted the approval rates of customers attempting to activate a new card or attempting to use their card once activated. Taking the combined effect of these various new controls, we estimate that the growth impact to our overall portfolio has been on the order of 5 to 10 percentage points
• In our history, we have had only 2 retailers move from an exclusive merchandising display to a nonexclusive display with multiple products. In both cases, results have been that our sales growth decreased year-over-year,

• First, I'm pleased to announce that we have signed a long-term exclusive partnership with a leading provider of financial services for the higher education channel, including student loan disbursements. We cannot disclose the name of the partner right now for competitive reasons but we will before we launch the products. The partnership calls for Green Dot Bank to serve as issuer and Green Dot Corporation to serve as program manager to provide accounts to students for refund disbursements and for their general banking needs. We think that Green Dot is really well positioned to succeed in the higher education channel because we intend to offer feature-rich product with fees that are at the lowest end of the market along with our company policy of never having any type of overdraft or penalty fees ever.
• First, I'm pleased to announce that we have signed a long-term exclusive partnership with a leading provider of financial services for the higher education channel, including student loan disbursements. We cannot disclose the name of the partner right now for competitive reasons but we will before we launch the products. The partnership calls for Green Dot Bank to serve as issuer and Green Dot Corporation to serve as program manager to provide accounts to students for refund disbursements and for their general banking needs. We think that Green Dot is really well positioned to succeed in the higher education channel because we intend to offer feature-rich product with fees that are at the lowest end of the market along with our company policy of never having any type of overdraft or penalty fees ever.