Company: GDOT
Filing Date: 2025-08-11
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001386278-25-000064
Chunk: 287

Company: GREEN DOT CORP
Filing Date: 2025-08-11
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 2
Chunk 287
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 may seek recovery of very large or indeterminate amounts, seek to have aspects of our business suspended or modified or seek to impose sanctions, including significant monetary fines. For example, in July 2024 we and our subsidiary bank entered into the Consent Order, including a civil money penalty of $44 million, with the Federal Reserve Board as further discussed in the "As a bank holding company, we are subject to extensive and potentially changing regulations and regulatory expectations, which may limit our ability to pursue business opportunities and increase compliance challenges" risk factor above. Additionally, the monetary and other impacts of these actions, litigations, proceedings or investigations may remain unknown for substantial periods of time. The cost to defend, settle or otherwise resolve these matters have been and may be significant. Further, an unfavorable resolution of litigation, proceedings or investigations against us could have a negative impact on our business, operating results, or financial condition. In this regard, such costs could make it more difficult to maintain the capital, leverage and other financial commitments at levels we have agreed to with the Federal Reserve Board and the Utah Department of Financial Institutions. Any regulatory or judicial proceedings or investigations initiated against us by private or governmental entities may result in adverse publicity associated with these proceedings or investigations and could negatively impact our relationships with retail distributors, tax preparation partners, network acceptance members, financial institutions and other lending partners, other business partners and card processors and decrease acceptance and use of, and loyalty to, our products and related services, and could impact the price of our Class A common stock. In addition, such proceedings or investigations could increase the risk that we will be 

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involved in litigation. For the foregoing reasons, any regulatory or judicial proceedings or investigations that are initiated against us by private or governmental entities, could negatively impact our business, results of operations and financial condition or could cause our stock price to decline. Refer to Note 17—Commitments and Contingencies to the Consolidated Financial Statements included herein for further information regarding certain of our legal and other proceedings.

We may be unable to adequately protect our brand and our intellectual property rights related to our products and services or third parties may allege that we are infringing their intellectual property rights.

Our brands and marks are important to our business, and we utilize trademark registrations and other means to protect them. Our business would be negatively impacted if we were unable to protect our brand against infringement. We also rely on a combination of patent, trademark and copyright laws, trade secret protection and confidentiality and license agreements to protect the intellectual property rights related to