Sutton Bank

An Ohio bank behind many prepaid card programs, under a joint FDIC and Ohio BSA order since February 2024.

Sutton Bank is a state-chartered bank in Attica, Ohio, supervised by the FDIC. Its joint FDIC and Ohio consent order FDIC-23-0110b, dated February 1, 2024, centers on prepaid card programs run through third-party program managers. It requires a revised AML program with oversight of third parties that perform AML duties, an inventory of third-party relationships mapping each program manager’s AML responsibilities, customer identification rules imposed on program managers and a lookback of prepaid card customers from July 1, 2020. The FDIC had published no termination as of September 26, 2026.

Country
United States
Primary federal regulator
FDIC
State regulator
Ohio Department of Commerce, Division of Financial Institutions
Charter type
State-chartered commercial bank, not a Federal Reserve member
FDIC certificate number
5962
Publicly announced fintech partners
Cash App (Cash App Prepaid Card, per Cash App's card agreement)
Prepaid programs listed on Sutton Bank's own prepaid agreements page
Marqeta (Sutton Bank described as its largest issuing bank in Marqeta's SEC filings)
Enforcement actions (regulator records)
DocumentRegulatorIssuedStatus
FDIC-23-0110b consent order (BSA/AML, prepaid program managers)FDIC and Ohio DFI (BA2023-01)Feb 1, 2024In force (no termination published)
Date checked

Questions

Is Sutton Bank under an FDIC consent order?
Yes. Joint FDIC and Ohio consent order FDIC-23-0110b of February 1, 2024 had no published termination on September 26, 2026.
What does the Sutton Bank consent order require?
An inventory of third-party program managers and their AML duties, stronger suspicious-activity monitoring of prepaid programs, and a customer identification lookback from July 2020.
Does the Sutton Bank order ban new fintech partners?
No moratorium on new partners appears in the order; it requires oversight and due diligence of third parties instead.
Which fintechs use Sutton Bank?
Cash App names Sutton Bank as issuer of its prepaid card, Sutton lists prepaid programs on its own site, and Marqeta’s SEC filings name Sutton as its largest issuing bank.

See also

Sources

Source: FDIC BankFind, the FDIC, OCC and Federal Reserve enforcement records and state regulators’ orders, plus partner announcements by the banks or fintechs, as linked in each profile. How we build and refresh profiles: methodology.

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