Apple Pay comes to 26 more US banks & credit unions

On top of reaching Italy, Apple Pay is now available through 26 more U.S. financial institutions, as well as a single extra card issuer in China.

Continuing trends, most of the U.S. additions are highly localized — such as the Red River Credit Union, which only operates branches in northeast Texas and southwest Arkansas. National banks were typically signed up within months of Apple Pay's Oct. 2014 launch, and since then hundreds of regional institutions have joined.

The one new Chinese issuer is Liaoning Rural Credit Cooperatives, though the country already has dozens of others onboard. Apple Pay first arrived in China in Feb. 2016.

The full list of U.S. additions includes:

Blackhawk Bank & Trust
Capital Community Bank
Central Bank of IA
Chemical Bank
Columbia Bank [now NJ and OR]
Commercial State Bank
County Credit Union
El Paso Area Teachers Federal Credit Union
Finger Lakes Federal Credit Union
First Colony Bank of Florida
First National Bank of Picayune
Minnequa Works Credit Union
North Island Financial Credit Union
Peoples Bank of the South
Peoples Savings Bank
Prime Financial Credit Union
Red River Credit Union
San Juan Credit Union
Santa Clara County Federal Credit Union
Texas Citizens Bank
Town and Country and Peoples Prosperity Bank
Tradition Capital Bank
UNCLE Credit Union
Unitus Community Credit Union
Voyage Federal Credit Union
Wasatch Peaks Credit Union

The Italian launch is being backed by just three institutions, namely Boon, Carrefour, and UniCredit. It does however put Apple Pay in 16 markets worldwide, with Germany perhaps being next on the slate.

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6 Comments

rob53

said about 6 years ago

It's about time. UNCLE credit union is based in Livermore, CA, an hour from Apple headquarters. Most of the members work at LLNL, once the largest single site installation of Macs in the country (late '90s). Of course that doesn't seem to make any difference to banking types.

crabby

said about 6 years ago

I do not need more banks. I need MANY more retailers who are capable.

macgui

said about 6 years ago

The Bank of U.N.C.L.E.?

crabby said:

I do not need more banks. I need MANY more retailers who are capable.

Yes, give me vendors, that's what I want!

jbdragon

said about 6 years ago

crabby said:

I do not need more banks. I need MANY more retailers who are capable.

Need to get the banks on board. Places that accept Apple Pay keep growing. I look for the NFC symbol which looks like the wifi symbol in the iPhone turned sideways. It took many, many years to get most all businesses with Terminals to take Credit and Debit cards. 20 years ago I still Remember the place I was working at had no terminal machine, we used Carbon paper and a card roller. That's why credit card numbers are Raised up like they are to this day. At least MOST of them still are. Some are just flush with the surface now like everything else. Some of the places I go to where it works is McDonald's of course, Subway, Macy's, Food 4 Less, Rayley's, Mountain Mikes Pizza, Round Table Pizza, Best Buy, etc. There's a long ways to go of course but will take time. Most of Canada, Apple Pay works at as NFC is everywhere like many other countries. It's just not going to happen overnight. I think it'll be over the hump and more mainstream when Wal-Mart drops their dumb QR code garbage and accepts NFC transactions also!!! I do use Apple Pay on my Apple Watch as much as possible. I try it all over. Some places they've told me it doesn't work and then BAM it does. So you can't even take their word for it. Most of the time when I see the NFC symbol and try it, it works!!! Sometimes it doesn't at that time, but who knows a few months later. If you try and it fails, they may tel their boss who may just enable it to work and next time you go it does.

ignomini

said about 6 years ago

crabby said:

I do not need more banks. I need MANY more retailers who are capable.

+10k

I know a grand total of three places in my area where I can use Apple pay. Oh wait, the local Albertsons just dropped it. Make that two. Don't get me wrong, I love the idea, but nobody supports it at the retail level. Don't even bother trying any more. I got tired of making people wait while I waived my phone around for no reason. I'm sure the inner city Starf@cks customers are happy, but in the real world, retailers accepting Apple pay are a rarity.