Company: GDOT
Filing Date: 2025-11-24
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001140361-25-043029
Chunk: 1

Company: GREEN DOT CORP
Filing Date: 2025-11-24
Form: 425
Chunk 1
---
12b-2 of this chapter). Emerging growth company ☐ If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐

| Item 7.01 | Regulation FD Disclosure. |

On November 24, 2025, Green Dot Corporation, a Delaware corporation (“Green Dot”), CommerceOne Financial Corporation, an Alabama corporation (“CommerceOne”), and Smith Ventures LLC, an Alabama limited liability company (“Smith Ventures”), issued a joint press release announcing the execution of the Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Merger Agreement”), dated as of November 23, 2025, by and among Green Dot, CommerceOne, Compass Sub North, Inc., a newly formed Delaware corporation and a direct, wholly-owned subsidiary of CommerceOne (“New CommerceOne”), Compass Sub East, Inc., a newly formed Delaware corporation and a direct, wholly-owned subsidiary of New CommerceOne (“Merger Sub One”), and Compass Sub West, Inc., a newly formed Delaware corporation and an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary of New CommerceOne (“Merger Sub Two”), pursuant to which, upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth therein,(i) Merger Sub One will merge with and into CommerceOne and Merger Sub Two will merge with and into Green Dot (collectively, the “First Mergers”), with CommerceOne and Green Dot, respectively, surviving the First Mergers; and (ii) following the First Mergers, CommerceOne will merge with and into New CommerceOne, with New CommerceOne surviving under the name “CommerceOne Financial Corporation.” Also on November 23, 2025,Green Dot entered into the Separation Agreement (the “Separation Agreement”), dated as of November 23, 2025, by and among New CommerceOne, Green Dot and Green Dot OpCo, LLC, a newly formed Delaware limited liability company and affiliate of Smith Ventures, pursuant to which, upon the terms and subject to the conditions therein, following the First Mergers,GreenDot OpCo, LLC will acquire the non-bank financial technology and related assets and operations of Green Dot. A copy of the joint press release is attached as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated herein by reference. In connection with the announcement of the Merger Agreement and Separation Agreement, Green Dot, CommerceOne and