After adding support for several new banks last month, Apple today updated its list of supported banks and card types with the addition of L&N Federal Credit Union, UW Credit Union, and new card types for others.
Apple’s newly updated list also now includes support for small business debit cards through M&T Bank.
Apple has been adding support for many additional banks in the weeks since launching Apple Pay in October with a handful of initial partners. Last month it added support for Commerce Bank and not long before that a longer list including USAA, US Bank, Barclaycard, PNC, and others.
Apple’s full list of supported banks currently includes L&N Federal Credit Union, UW Credit Union, Commerce Bank, America First Credit Union, American Express, Bank of America, Barclaycard, Capital One, Citi, Commerce Bank, J.P. Morgan, M&T Bank, Merrill Lynch, Navy Federal Credit Union, PNC, Regions Bank, SunTrust, U.S. Bank, U.S. Trust, USAA, and Wells Fargo.
We have a running list of banks that plan to support Apple Pay in the coming weeks and months here. We also have a running list of the latest stores and apps that accept Apple Pay here.
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Good news.
Still no Bancorp, that means no PayPal, Google Wallet or Simple.
Which means I’m still crying inside.
While I love Google Wallet for online purchases (that feature Google is gonna put to an end soon) because I can load it up with gift cards and use it as a normal debit card, Apple Pay will prolly never support Google Wallet because it’s not a bank licensed debit card. Meaning you don’t have to have a bank account to use the card. Apple seems very strict on the whole “it must be a card issued from the bank itself”. So as long as Google Wallet can be used without need for a bank account, the chances Apple ever supports it is slim to none.
Apple Pay and Google Wallet are competing services that do the exact same thing, allow you to pay at the register without pulling your card out. Apple Pay CAN’T support Google Wallet. The debit card that you can get for Wallet is simply a glorified gift card that defeats the entire purpose of Google Wallet.
I’m not going to get the iPhone 6 for awhile probably. It would be appalling if Simple doesn’t support it by then.
Still no Discover….
I doubt it ever will. Discover isn’t accepted in enough places.
Keybank where are you?
Now if we could only be getting more announcements about other *retailers* that support it. The top of my wishlist is the Safeway grocery stores in the western US.
Safeway? We have those up in Canada, and their prices are THE WORST up here! I wouldn’t shop there even if you paid me…
What are their prices like down south?
Safeway’s prices around here (San Francisco Bay Area) are pretty reasonable. They’re not as cheap as the budget supermarkets like Lucky, nor as fancy as Whole Foods, but I think they do a pretty decent job of hitting the right balance between price and quality. They’re the place we go each week for our regular everyday staples. We go to the more gourmet-isn places for more specific/specialized things if we need them for a party or whatever.
Interestingly, there is (was?) a supermarket chain in the UK also named “Safeway” that has absolutely no relation to the American company…..
When will Chase begin allowing MasterCard cards to be used in Apple Pay