Apple Pay picks up new card issuers in US, China, France, Finland & Italy

Apple has added dozens of new banks and credit unions to its list compatible with Apple Pay, focusing primarily on the U.S., but with a number of international expansions.

These include the Bank of Quanzhou and YangQuan City Commercial Bank in China, and Arkea Banque Privee, Credit Mutuel de Bretagne, Credit Mutuel du Sud-Ouest, Credit Mutuel Massif Central, Fortuneo Banque, Max, and Lydia in France. Italian users can turn to Hype and Nexi — including cards from CartaSi and ICBPI — and Finland now supports Edenred (Ticket Restaurant cards).

The complete list of U.S. additions is below:

Act 1st Federal Credit Union
Adirondack Trust Company
AllWealth Federal Credit Union
Auburn Community Federal Credit Union
Bradford National Bank
Cedar Falls Community Credit Union
City of Boston Credit Union
Dallas Capital Bank
Decatur County Bank
Deerwood Bank
Farmers Bank and Trust
Farmers State Bank [IA]
First National Bank of Anson
First Pryority Bank
First Utah Bank
FNB Anson
GECU
Heritage Bank [WA]
HomeStreet Bank
Lowry State Bank
Marion Community Credit Union
Maspeth Federal Savings
Mechanics Bank
Meredith Village Savings Bank
Merrimack County Savings Bank
Mocse Federal Credit Union
Northern Bank
Peoples National Bank of Kewanee
Primebank
Quantum Credit Union
R.I.A. Federal Credit Union
Redding Bank of Commerce
School District 3 Federal Credit Union
School Employees Lorain County Credit Union
Somerset Trust Company
State Highway Patrol Federal Credit Union
The Citizens Bank [SC]
The Clay City Banking Company
The Harbor Bank of Maryland
United Business & Industry
Valley National Bank [both NY and OK]
VisionBank of Iowa
Webster First Federal Credit Union

While Apple Pay is now available in a number of countries worldwide, Apple is still filling in major gaps. The next rumored destination is Brazil, a country of over 207 million people.

12 Comments

lepton 111 comments · 20 Years

About 6 years ago

By now they must have nearly every bank in the universe. But what they need to add is more retailers!

macxpress 5910 comments · 16 Years

lepton said:

By now they must have nearly every bank in the universe. But what they need to add is more retailers!

One of my credit union's are still not support and neither are others in the area. So no, not every bank is supported with ApplePay. There's only one credit union/bank in my area that supports Apple Pay.

Soli 9981 comments · 9 Years

lepton said:

By now they must have nearly every bank in the universe. But what they need to add is more retailers!

1) If they're still adding banks then there are clearly more banks to be added.

2) There are probably 200 countries that still don't have any Apple Pay support.

3) More retailers are needed for a tipping point to be achieved where we go from being surprised that a business supports *Pay to being surprised that a business doesn't support *Pay, but that was always going to come after the financial institution support (at least in the US—in Europe, for example, it's mostly waiting for financial institutions and Apple to ink deals).

4) If I recall correctly, earlier this year it was reported that over 50% of businesses support *Pay. That's a faster adoption rate than I expected for this service. Remember that this is a radical change that requires many disparate parts to be onboard, as well as a cultural change. I think it's moving along nicely.(*Pay refers to Apple Pay, Android Pay, Samsung Pay, as well as every other service that uses the bank-centralized system for secure payments via CE.)

riverko 245 comments · 9 Years

In CZ we have more than 90% of retailer ready for *Pay... android pay arrived last week, hope Apple keeps up soon...

Soli said:

lepton said:

By now they must have nearly every bank in the universe. But what they need to add is more retailers!

4) If I recall correctly, earlier this year it was reported that over 50% of businesses support *Pay. That's a faster adoption rate than I expected for this service. Remember that this is a radical change that requires many disparate parts to be onboard, as well as a cultural change. I think it's moving along nicely.

If we could only get the damn SOB people to stop writing checks at the checkout. I cannot friggin'stand waiting in line while someone writes a check to pay for their stuff. And then of course, they have to try and balance their god damn checkbook right then and there and god forbid they have the check pre-written (minus the amount), or hell, even their checkbook out ahead of time.

*gets off soapbox*