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:
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
Comments
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.)
*gets off soapbox*
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).
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Yet sometimes ApplePay is quietly there but not advertised. Not until making transaction at National Gallery of Art did I see ApplePay logo pop up on the little screen, so I put back my credit card and bought Vermeer and friends new book with my phone.
2) Remember when ATMs weren't common and CC's were a bigger PITA than writing a check, so if you wanted cash for the weekend you had to make it to the bank before closing time on Friday or apply to your local grocery store to have a check cashing card? Banks seem to mostly be open on Saturdays now, but then it seemed like they were always closed on the weekends. For the most part this was beyond my time, but I do remember my mother doing this and the stress of it all when she was still living paycheck to paycheck.
2) What is Vermeer? I only know of the Dutch painter and I assume you're not taking about buying artwork? Side note: Check out the documentary Tim's Vermeer (2013) if you haven't seen it.
3) Apple offers free decals for merchants. I ordered the maximum, which I keep in my vehicles, and hand out to places that offer the service but don't advertise it. One pack is likely more than enough since they contain many different sized two-way decals.
2) If you really want to stick it to them with the least about of personal hassle you maybe able to use your bank's check creation service to, say, a $1 check that gets mailed to them each month but then submit it x-number of times for the value owed. Or, you could do pennies like this guy did with the DMV after getting the runaround.