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ACQUISITIONS APPOINTMENTS

Equifax buys AccountScore Oyster promotes Eric Sanabria

Equifax acquired transaction analytics firm AccountScore Oyster Financial, an online financial services platform,
to boost its ability to offer open banking solutions. appointed Eric Sanabria as its new chief business officer
Equifax intends to combine its traditional credit bureau following his service for more than a year as the com-
information with bank transaction data, a step Patricio pany's vice president of operations and revenue. Prior
Remon, Equifax's European president, said was "a natu- to Oyster, Sanabria worked as an executive for Google's
ral next step" for the company. Equifax intends to access Online Partnerships Group for North America, where he
open banking data that isn't typically taken into consid- was the group's revenue intelligence lead after serving
eration to help demonstrate customers' creditworthi- as a strategic partner manager for Google for two years.
ness, a function various fintechs have handled until now. Previously, Sanabria worked for marketing automation
platform Phizzle as both an engineering team project-
Nets completes Checkout Finland acquisition management lead and adviser to the startup's executive
leadership.
Nets Group's Paytrail completed the acquisition of
Checkout Finland Oy, a payment service provider in Jerry Uffner joins DataSeers
Finland. With this acquisition, Nets Group expands
its presence in Finland and strengthens its position DataSeers hired prepaid and payments veteran Jerry
within ecommerce—a high-growth area across Europe. Uffner as chief revenue officer. He is expected to play
Checkout Finland, previously part of OP Financial a crucial role in DataSeers' expansion in the banking
Group, serves both ecommerce merchants and physi- and payments space. Most recently, he served as senior
cal stores with a range of payment options and mobile vice president, head of business development, prepaid
payment solutions. Checkout. It had around 8,000 ecom- and government services at FIS. He has been in the pay-
merce merchants and reported revenues of almost €12 ments industry since 1988, helping pioneer the prepaid
million for 2020, up from €8.2 million in 2019. payments industry in the mid 1990's and brings decades
of relevant payment industry experience to DataSeers.
Previous to FIS, he was president and CEO of FirstView
Financial and TransCard, both prepaid program manag-
ers and processors.
2021 First American promotes Chris Yurko,
hires Jerry Faith
STILL First American Payment Systems Chris Yurko as vice
president of integrated payments. In this role, Yurko
where the industry meets will be responsible for growing strategic accounts and
gaylord opryland | nashville | july 25-27 partner relationships throughout North America. He
also will oversee the strategy and vertical focus for the
sales channel. Yurko, who joined First American in 2018,
brings a broad range of experience to his new position.
Previously, Yurko served as director of strategic partner-
ships at Worldpay. His expertise also includes payment
integrations at Apriva and sales at Chase Paymentech.

The company also welcomed Jerry Faith as sales man-
ager. In this capacity, Faith will focus on new partner
acquisition, matching integration-focused ISOs with
First American's payment technology Faith joins First
American from TransPay Solutions and BMT Retail
Systems, where he helped business owners reduce costs
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• education business lending through integrated POS solutions.
• networking Previously, he served as division director at Get Beyond,
where he led a team of SMB advocates.
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