Roger Fingas
Outside of Russia, a trio of international financial institutions added support for Apple Pay on Tuesday, including Canada's Desjardins, and the U.K.'s Metro Bank and The Co-Operative Bank.
The Desjardins addition may be most significant of the three, as the credit union is commonplace in the major province of Quebec, with smaller footprints in the rest of Canada and in Florida. Customers can add Desjardins debit and Visa cards to Apple Pay through the iOS Wallet app.
While Metro Bank noted that all of its cards are compatible with Apple Pay, The Co-Operative said that "most" of its cards are supported, the exceptions being Affinity and any of its business cards.
Banks and credit unions have been relatively quick to support Apple. The real obstacle — at least in the U.S. — has been merchants, since retailers have been slow to upgrade their point-of-sale terminals to something compatible with the NFC chips in iPhones and the Apple Watch.
Indeed some retailers that have promised support for years, like Anthropologie and Forever 21, have yet to deliver. This may explain why Apple removed a "coming soon" section from its U.S. merchant list.
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Maybe the"Coming Soon" crowd was referring to their websites. Else they never got their compliance act together.
That's great but...
Does anyone know of any storefront website (not iOS Apps) besides Apple's that supports Apple Pay at check out?
iOS 10 and Sierra have been out for a while now...
Well, it's about time, Co-operative Bank, given you've happily been accepting Apple Pay at your Co-operative Food stores for quite some time, it's about time your banking customers could get in on the fun, hooyah! :smile:
I paid with Apple Pay at an Anthropologie in Cleveland two weeks ago.