Apple Pay picks up new card issuers in US, Canada & China

By Roger Fingas

Apple has updated its roster of banks and credit unions with Apple Pay to include more U.S. institutions, plus a handful of additional options in Canada and China.

Canadians can now add cards from Servus Credit Union. In China, the expansion includes Visa and Mastercard for China Construction Bank, and PrimeCredit Limited Visa in Hong Kong.

As is now standard, the U.S. additions are primarily state- or city-level. Most national firms were onboard within a year of Apple Pay's Oct. 2014 launch.

The complete list of new U.S. issuers is below: