Green Dot, California based prepaid Mastercard and Visa cards issuer has announced acquisition of Ohio based UniRush LLC. UniRush offers prepaid Visa debit cards that can be used to deposit and withdraw money, shop online, make purchases at POS, and pay bills. At the end of 2016, Green Dot had a portfolio of 4.13 million active cards. With this acquisition, Green Dot aims to bolster its prepaid card market in the country as UniRush’s Rapid! Paycard has a customer base of 2,500 companies. The deal has been finalized for $147mn in cash and yearly earn-out payments of $4mn for five years. The transaction is expected to be completed by the end of Q1 2017.