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Find a Location

Pathward Venture Capital, LLC has 13 locations, listed below.

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    Business ProfileforPathward Venture Capital, LLC

    Bank
    HeadquartersMulti Location Business
    The Complaints and Reviews shown on this HQ profile may have been submitted against either the HQ itself or one of the corporate-owned locations found under "Find Locations".

    At-a-glance

    Customer Reviews

    1.1/5stars

    Average of 156 Customer Reviews

    Customer Complaints

    945 complaints closed in last 3 years

    305 complaints closed in last 12 months

    Customer Reviews are not used in the calculation of BBB Rating

    Reasons for BBB Rating

    Overview

    MetaBank(r) is a federally chartered savings bank headquartered in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Meta Financial Group, Inc.(r), is the holding company for MetaBank and its divisions: Meta Payment Systems, its electronic payments division; AFS/IBEX, its insurance premium financing division; and Refund Advantage, EPS Financial and Specialty Consumer Services (SCS), its tax-related financial solutions divisions.

    Products & Services

    MetaBank provides online and in-branch banking services for personal, mortgage, business and agricultural consumer needs.

    Business Details

    This is a multi-location business.

    Find a Location

    Pathward Venture Capital, LLC has 13 locations, listed below.

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      Headquarters
      5501 S Broadband Ln, Sioux Falls, SD 57108-2253
      BBB File Opened:
      1/9/2006
      Years in Business:
      70
      Business Started:
      1/1/1954
      Business Incorporated:
      4/11/2017
      Type of Entity:
      Limited Liability Company (LLC)
      Alternate Business Name
      • Spruce Money
      • MetaBank
      • Meta Payment Systems
      • AFS/IBEX
      • Refund Advantage
      • Meta Financial Group, Inc.
      • EPS Financial
      • Specialty Consumer Services
      • Meta Financial Group
      Business Management
      • Becca Ideker, Operations Manager
      Contact Information

      Customer Contact

      • Becca Ideker, Operations Manager
      • Lisa Beattie
      Additional Contact Information

      Website Addresses

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      Customer Complaints

      945 Customer Complaints

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      Most Recent Customer Complaint

      07/05/2024

      Complaint Type:
      Billing Issues
      Status:
      Answered
      In mid-June, my 16 year old son received what would appear as a pre-paid credit card from Netspend. The language in the correspondence referenced: No cost to activate, No credit check, and no minimum balance required, and Earn cash back offers with Payback Rewards. The correspondence goes on to encourage direct deposit for payroll. I view these actions as predatory and they should be stopped immediately.
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      Customer Reviews

      156 Customer Reviews

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      Most Recent Customer Review

      Ka S

      1 star

      07/19/2024

      This was a decent company to maintain a Check Card through back in 2011 when I was first set up with my account, and I have been happy with it for a long time. This service has gone so downhill in the last couple years that I am at my final straw. It started when their app was updated about six months to a year ago, and hasn't worked right since. The balance is rarely right, the app glitches out about half the time, and no amount of star reviews on the Google Play store, direct complaints, etc. have yielded a fixed result. It's a "known problem" that they are always working on. Well, today was the final straw. The outage happened with CrowdStrike, and no one knew how much it affected until it was too late. Turns out one of the items affected was a POS system used at my work, which I used not knowing that it was affected. My account was charged $3.10 consistently afterward, and I am not $162 in the hole. That was the grocery money I needed for my kids. I called the bank immediately, explained what happened, how it happened, and the circumstances. I was told it'd take 7 business days to reverse. When I asked to speak to a manager, I was put on hold and then told to call back in 30 minutes because the manager was busy, instead of just being told it'd be a while and left on hold in a que. I've had issues with this particular service for the last few years, and that was it. That is what will send me to seek out another bank I know would try to make matters right. I'm done. Use this service at your own risk.

      Pathward Venture Capital, LLC Response

      07/22/2024

      Pathward would like to offer assistance. Please call Pathward directly at 833-350-0506 for direct assistance..

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