The $69 billion, Vienna, Va.-based Navy Federal Credit Union hasrolled out Android Pay as a mobile payments option, making it oneof the first financial institutions, and the only credit union, toadd the service to its mobile offerings, the credit union said.

Navy Federal, which has nearly six million members worldwide,said almost one million of its members are active Android users,and approximately 90% of those members will have the option to usethe mobile service.

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Android Pay, which Google Inc. said would replace Google Walletback in May, kicked off in the U.S. on Thursday in more than onemillion locations.

“We have a large member population that generates 70 milliondebit card transactions per month and we saw more than $1.2 billionin credit card sales in August alone,” Meghan Gound, assistant vicepresident, digital communications for Navy Federal, said. “AndroidPay makes sense for our members because we know they adopt mobiletechnology and are using their debit and credit cards to maketransactions.”