If before we had any questions about it, today we can say that the bank Macquare Group and ING will have Apple Pay support next month in Australia. This is announced on the AppleInsider website where you can also see the image that we have left in the header with the "coming soon" for these two banks.
The Australian Competition and Consumers Commission stood firm in the face of the individual negotiations of each bank in the country so as not to violate the law, now these negotiations are gradually unraveling and we are already clear that before the end of this month of February or the beginning of March at the latest, ING and Macquarie Group users will have Apple Pay benefits available.
This is a very good thing if we take into account that in the case of ING it is present all over the world and could trigger its launch in the rest of the countries where it operates, among which Spain is obviously. The situation here remains the same as since this service was launched, although it is true that banks complain of too high fees to introduce this service to the user ...
In short, we are in a situation that little by little has to unravel, but all this can only be said by the time it takes for banks or Apple itself to loosen up. Taking into account that the implementation has already reached Spain and the conditions have been accepted by a bank, Apple may not "get off the hook" in negotiations, but all this you have to follow and see what happens in the end. In any case, the news of the launch of Apple Pay in ING opens up new hope for us to have another large bank with this service in our country and perhaps in many that still do not have Apple Pay available.
