This year it seems that Apple has finally put the batteries permanently or the banks themselves have begun to see how the integrated payment technology of the iPhone is a more than real option in the not too distant future for day-to-day transactions. As usual, the Apple guys seem to have their holidays reserved for when they launch the final versions of the operating systems, since both during July and August, different versions are launched to polish all the details.
But these engineers aren't the only ones running out of vacations, as the Apple Pay guys seem like this year they have also had to delay the holidays. Apple has once again updated the website for Apple Pay by adding new banks compatible with this technology in several countries, not exclusively in the United States, as it always did in the beginning.
In Australia Apple Pay has reached an agreement to offer this technology with two banks:
- Latitude Financial Services
- RACQ
In China, the number of new banks increases by six:
- Beijing Rural Commercial Bank
- Haikou Rural Commercial Bank
- Jiangsu Jiangnan Rural Commercial Bank
- Jiangsu JiangyinRural
- Commercial Bank
- Shengjing Bank
- Yunnan Rural Credit Cooperatives
In Hong Kong, only a new bank called Dahsing Bank with support for Visa and Mastercard credit cards has been added, as has the United Kingdom, where only the Cumberland Building Society bank has been added to the Apple Pay party. Russia has also joined this party with 7 new banks:
- Bank «Devon Credit»
- Credit Union «Payment Center» Ltd. (Including prepaid Mastercard cards)
- khlynov
- Kuban Credit
- Levoberezhny
- primsotcbank
- sovcombank
We finalize the list with the United States, where Apple has added 22 new banks and credit institutions compatible with Apple Pay:
- Anstaff Bank
- Bank of Milton
- Bryn Mawr Trust
- Credit Union ONE
- EagleBank
- Farmers & Merchants Union Bank
- Farmers National Bank
- First Bank and Trust Company
- First Class American Credit Union
- First National Bank (PA)
- First National Bank of Crossett
- First National Bank of Groton
- Nascoga Federal Credit Union
- Notre Dame Federal Credit Union
- Peach State Federal Credit Union
- Security Federal Bank
- State Bank
- sutton bank
- Vacation Land Federal Credit Union
- Wauna Credit Union
- Western Federal Credit Union
- Westmoreland Community Federal Credit Union
Today Apple Pay is available at Australia, Canada, China, France, Hong Kong, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, Russia, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, the United Kingdom and Italy, the last country to receive Apple Pay with open hands.
