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New Type of Stimulus

If you follow these things, you’ve probably heard about the Treasury’s new (if uncompellingly named) MyAccountCard pilot.  Issued by soon-to-be Green Dot’s Bonneville Bank, managed by Green Dot, the US Treasury will send these GPR cards to 600,000 underbanked households, suggesting they use the card to receive their tax refunds.…

Zestfully Clean

You’re not fully clean unless you’ve tried to get a ZestCash loan, except you won’t have any luck, unless you live in Utah.  Former Googler Douglas Merrill and former Cap-Onener Shawn Budde introduced ZestCash today. It’s the latest entrant in the anti-payday online short-term lending space, following suit to Wonga,…