Despite the different problems that Apple in Australia is having with the country's banks, it seems that the Cupertino-based company is trying to reach agreements little by little with different banks to be able to offer Apple Pay to its customers. The last ones to be added to the short list of compatible banks have been ING and Macquarie. This could be the first step for ING Direct to expand in more countries, including Spain, where only Banco Santander is offering compatibility with this electronic payment services from the guys from Cupertino.
All ING and Macquarie customers in Australia can now add their cards to Apple's payment service joining Bank Australia, Beyond Bank, CUA, Defense Bank, MyState, QT Mutual Bank, ANZ and American Express, the first company to offer compatibility with Apple Pay in the country. This payment service is only compatible with the iPhone SE, iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus, in addition to the Apple Watch. But it also offers us the possibility of making payments through Safari in those businesses that have adopted this technology.
Practically since its launch, Apple has been facing problems with the country's major banks, which have taken Apple to the country's competition court, so that the NFC chip of Apple devices opens to third-party applications, so that banks can make use of it with their applications without having to pay Apple at any time to use Apple Pay, since they only want to use the NFC chip, something to which Apple logically refuses since it would put the security of your operating systems at risk.
