Apple is continuing to sign more banks and credit unions up every few weeks to support Apple Pay, and the latest expansion in the United States includes another 40 new partners to back the company’s mobile payment service. Check below to see the latest banks to go live:
American Heritage Federal Credit Union
Associated Credit Union
Bangor Savings Bank
Bank of Bourbonnais
Bank of Clovis
Bank of the Pacific
Baton Rouge Telco Federal Credit Union
BHCU
Cardinal Bank
Corning Credit Union
First Financial Credit Union (both IL & NM now)
First National Bank of Trenton
First Nations Bank
First Republic Bank
Flint Area School Employees Credit Union
Glass City Federal Credit Union
Guaranty Bank and Trust Company
Hawthorn Bank
Hills Bank and Trust Company
Hudson Valley Federal Credit Union
Leader Bank, N.A.
Michigan Tech Employees Federal Credit Union
Midcoast Federal Credit Union
Oatworth Capital Bank
Ohio Valley Bank
Partnership Financial Credit Union
Penn Liberty Bank
Police and Fire Federal Credit Union
Prime Merdian Bank
Reading Cooperative Bank
Republic Bank
Section 705 Federal Credit Union
Secured Advantage Federal Credit Union
Southern Bank
Southwest Missouri Bank
TowneBank
West Plains Bank and Trust Company
WesTex Federal Credit Union
Wilmington Savings Fund Society
WSFS Bank
You can find the full list of all issuing partners including this week’s additions here. Apple Pay on iPhones and Apple Watch lets you pay securely in stores that accept contactless payments using the iPhone 6 or later, or any Apple Watch paired with iPhone 5 or later. iPhones and iPads can also make payments within supported apps using Apple Pay and Touch ID on iPhone 6 or later, iPad mini 3 and 4, iPad Air 2, and iPad Pro.
In addition to more banks, retailer JCPenney recently started piloting store-issued card support for Apple Pay, following Kohl’s full support just before them. Apple Pay has also expanded beyond the US and UK with a deal through American Express in Canada and Australia. China is also on the radar in a big way for Apple Pay.
More retailers are also starting to accept Apple Pay with Dominos, Cinnabon, Starbucks, Chilis, and KFC all testing or planning future rollouts. Apple maintains a list of partners that accept Apple Pay here, although many more locations also accept contactless payments including Apple Pay.
Small businesses can also easily accept Apple Pay and other contactless payment methods with options like Square’s new reader which is rolling out or PayAnywhere’s Apple Pay-ready reader that’s sold in Apple Stores.
Apple Pay is also expected to add peer-to-peer payments between users, possibly using iMessage, sometime in 2016 according to recent reports.
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How many freaking banks are there in America?!
Seriously wouldn’t be surprised if the list of not supported banks was shorter than the full list of supported banks … Ally probably being the biggest.
It’s ≈ 10%. Apple now has 800 in The States, and there around 8000 banks. No idea on how many locations AP is supported though.
Interesting. Seeing a few sources saying around 5.5K but ballpark is similar.
Besides Ally, State Employees Credit Union of North Carolina is #2 Credit Union. Fidelity Investments also clamored for. Most of the big Consumer Facing Banks have been taken care of.
While it is true that retailers are slowly coming on board with JC Penney, Domino’s, Chilis, KFC announcing, the growth in apps that take Apple Pay has been very good. Fandango, Dunkin Donuts (like Starbucks reload of card), Eat24, GiftBook, Jet.Com, joining lots of preexisting apps.
Even if I didn’t make a single retail purchase, the value of avoiding credit cards through web sites, having merchant store credit cards, trusting them to secure that info from external and internal threats, the ability to easily choose a card based on current benefits plus the convenience of biometrically authenticating a payment means Apple Pay will be around for a long time.
Perhaps 9to5 should simply have an ‘ApplePay ticker’ on top, next to the stock price(!)
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Ok Apple we get it, more banks are taking Apple Pay, you know what is much slower to take it….the places I want to use it.
How about getting stores on board.!!!
Hopefully having more banks behind Apple Pay pressures more retailers to upgrade terminals.
Even better, how about training cashiers at retailers that do accept Apple Pay? Cannot tell you how many times I confuse cashiers, young and older, when I use either my iPhone or Apple Watch to pay for something?
“Uhhh, what did you just do?”
Ummm, I just paid.” “How did you do that??”
Better yet, how about having a basic knowledge of the likes of Apple Pay when I ask the retailer employee if they have it?
“That’ll be $46.95.”
“Do you have Apple Pay?”
“Ummm? Excuse me…(whispers to another cashier)…”Do we have something called Apple Pay?…we do? What is it?”
Meanwhile I’m standing there banging my forehead on the counter.
I still don’t understand why this was even set up to where each bank has to be done separately. Why was it not set up just be handed threw VISA MASTERCARD directly just like every thing else.