
New Bank Has No Branches, Just an App — And Thinks You’ll Volunteer to Pay for It
• http://www.wired.com, By Marcus Wohlsen“Our bank was created from scratch,” Green Dot founder and CEO Steve Streit said at GoBank’s San Francisco unveiling. “It’s not a mobile app that was bolted onto an online version of a brick-and-mortar bank.”
Streit says GoBank starts from the premise that the mobile banking experience as delivered by big banks’ apps feels like an afterthought. For GoBank, mobile isn’t just a priority. It is the bank.