When it appeared that the expansion of Apple Pay had temporarily stalled, Apple's website just got updated adding 27 new Apple Pay-compatible banks in the United States and two new compatible banks in China. International expansion for now seems to have been temporarily stopped.
The latest countries that have already adopted Apple Pay with open arms are Finland, Denmark, Sweden and the United Arab Emirates, bringing the number of countries where this available payment technology is found to close to twenty and where only we find Spain as a Spanish-speaking country.
Below we show you a list with the new American and Chinese banks They have already started offering Apple Pay to all of their customers.
New banks supporting Apple Pay in the United States
- 1st Northern California Credit Union
- American Federal Bank
- Cattle National Bank & Trust Company
- Citizens Progressive Bank
- Community First Bank
- Fall River Municipal Credit Union
- First Community Bank of Hillsboro
- First Community Bank of the Ozarks
- First Option Bank
- Five County Credit Union
- Flanagan State Bank
- Greenfield Savings Bank
- Home National Bank
- Itasca Bank & Trust Co.
- Kellogg Community Credit Union
- Members Exchange Credit Union
- Metropolitan Commercial Bank
- Northeast Family Federal Credit Union
- Pathway bank
- Pennsylvania State Employees Credit Union
- Peoples Bank (TX)
- River Bank & Trust
- Sauk Valley Bank and Trust
- Sicily Island State Bank
- Sunset Science Park Federal Credit Union
- United One Credit Union
- Wiremen's Credit Union
New banks supporting Apple Pay in China
- Bank of Zhang Jia Kou
- Guangdong Huaxing Bank
Countries that support Apple Pay are France, Finland, Denmark, Ireland, Italy, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Canada, United States, Australia, Mainland China, United Arab Emirates, Hong Kong, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, and Taiwan For now, Apple Pay Cash, the method devised by Apple to send money between Apple users through Apple Pay, has begun to be available in beta with the launch of iOS 11.2 beta 2, although currently only available in the United States.
More banks should accept or include this payment method in their dataphones, in Spain few banks have it.