Apple Pay Gains Support for BJ's Wholesale Club Credit Cards and 66 New U.S. Issuers
Apple updated its Apple Pay participating issuers list today with support for BJ's Wholesale Club store cards, including the BJ’s Perks Plus and Elite MasterCards, and 66 additional banks, credit unions and financial institutions in the United States.
Apple Pay is now accepted at over 850 participating issuers nationwide, and several more plan to support the NFC-based mobile payment service in the future. The newly added Apple Pay participating issuers are reflected below, but some issuers may have rolled out support earlier than today and only being reflected on Apple's website now.
The full list of new Apple Pay participating issuers:
- American Community Bank of Indiana
- American United Federal Credit Union
- Anheuser-Busch Employees’ Credit Union
- Aspire Federal Credit Union
- Bank of Colorado
- Bank of Montgomery
- Catholic Federal Credit Union
- Cedar Rapids Bank and Trust
- CFCU Community Credit Union
- ChoiceOne Bank
- Community Bank of Mississippi
- Community Bank, Coast
- Community Bank, Ellisville
- Community Bank, North MS
- Credit One Bank
- D.L. Evans Bank
- Dane County Credit Union
- Diamond Credit Union
- East Wisconsin Savings Bank
- Educational Community Credit Union
- Farmers Bank
- First Alliance Credit Union
- First Bank & Trust Company
- First Federal Savings Bank of Twin Falls
- First National Bank & Trust Company of Weatherford
- First State Bank of Middlebury
- Fox Valley Savings Bank
- Greater Kinston Credit Union
- Hanscom Federal Credit Union
- Home City Federal Savings Bank
- Hondo National Bank
- Indiana Members Credit Union
- INTRUST Bank
- Kemba Financial Credit Union
- Land of Lincoln Credit Union
- Laramie Plains Federal Credit Union
- LCNB National Bank
- Liberty Savings Bank, FSB
- Local Government Federal Credit Union
- Mississippi Federal Credit Union
- Montgomery Country Employees Federal Credit Union
- MVB Bank Inc
- Neighbors Credit Union
- New Horizon Federal Credit Union
- NorState Federal Credit Union
- North State Bank
- NW Preferred Federal Credit Union
- OMNI Community Credit Union
- Pinnacle Bank Sioux City
- Pinnacle Bank Texas
- Pinnacle Bank Wyoming
- Quad City Bank and Trust
- Republic Bank & Trust Company
- San Antonio Federal Credit Union
- SCE Federal Credit Union
- Sharon Credit Union
- South Shore Bank
- State Employees Credit Union
- Sun East Federal Credit Union
- Sunrise Banks
- Texas Capital Bank
- The Bank of Missouri
- TruWest Credit Union
- Vantage West Credit Union
- Wayne Bank
- Wilson Bank & Trust
Apple is committed to an international expansion of Apple Pay, having launched the mobile payments service in Australia and Canada last month in partnership with American Express. Apple Pay is also coming to Hong Kong, Singapore and Spain in 2016, and is rumored to launch in China by February 2016.
On the merchant side, Cinnabon, Chili's, Domino's, KFC and Starbucks will support Apple Pay in the U.S. starting in 2016.
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