Apple Pay today added support for two more banks as Apple continues to slowly roll out support for the more than 500 US banks it said would support the new payments services. The new banks include Fremont Bank and the National Institutes of Health Federal Credit Union.
Fremont Bank, based in Fremont, CA, adds support for Personal debit cards and small business debit cards, according to Apple’s newly updated list of participating Apple Pay banks and card issuers.
The National Institutes of Health Federal Credit Union supports personal debit cards only, according to Apple, while it awaits support for its personal credit cards and and small business credit cards.
The two new additions follow L&N Credit Union and UW Credit Union gaining support earlier this month.
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
-Wells Fargo
-Fremont Bank
-National Institutes of Health FCU
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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The list is growing pretty nicely.
I’m not sure how to feel about this kind of service yet. I’m sure it’s incredibly convenient, but it seems as if, with all the computer hacking and security breaches happening, someone might be able to take advantage of this kind of network. I could be entirely wrong, but it someone thousands of miles away can hack into Target and steal private information, it seems this could be taken advantage of as well.
Ian: I can see where you might think that, but what’s superb about the way Apple Pay works compared to other digital wallets is two-fold: first, the purchase is secured by Touch ID, which means the bank only received a (randomised) token of approval from the device — your ID information doesn’t ever leave the iPhone, and is totally secure because Touch ID is totally secure.
The second part is that merchants and banks don’t get any information about the purchase, nor any financial information (that part was approved by the bank during initial setup). So there’s literally nothing for a thief to steal, and even if they somehow intercepted the approval tokens, they are encrypted with one-type-use randomization, so they are useless.
As standardpull says, Apple Pay is in fact more secure than any of the systems the banks are using for credit or debit card purchasing now — but the big reason I like it is because the merchant doesn’t get (keep, sell, collate etc) a lot of sensitive data about me.
NFC with Apple Pay is infinitely more secure than handing over a mag stripe card, or trafficking in 16 digit card numbers.
I’m not saying it’s perfect, but it is certainly more secure than any other payment system in use by the public.
Anyone here tell me how i can get this in canada? Im 17 and i do live on the border to Minnesota but no citizenship
Short version: As it hasn’t been rolled out in Canada (or anyplace outside the US) yet, you can’t.
Long version: If you can get one of the banks listed to give you a US-based credit card (a credit card where the bill is sent to a US address), there have been some reports of it working for purchases at foreign NFC-enabled pay points.
Now, please start the roll out in Europe too, particularly here in Denmark ;)