If you go to a savings bank, or a savings and loan, or a commercial bank and you say, I want to open up a checking account--that's a deposit; or, I want to open up a saving account--that's a deposit.
Green Dot, the provider of prepaid debit cards sold by Wal-Mart Stores, pharmacies and other retailers, is aiming to take on big banks with a new checkingaccount that consumers can open and manage through a smartphone application.