Two companies will be acquired by Mastercard: Transfast, a provider of money transfers from one bank account to another in more than 125 countries; and Ethoca, a company that gives merchants an early warning of possible fraudulent transactions. Transfast’s sellers are private equity firms GCP Capital Partners and Apis Partners. The transaction is expected to close by year end. Ethoca is privately held by investors including Spectrum Equity Management. Terms of both of the acquisitions were not disclosed. Transfast maintains direct integrations with more than 300 financial institutions wor...