Apple Pay Gains Nearly 60 New U.S. Banks and Credit Unions
Apple has updated its Apple Pay participating issuers list with 58 additional banks, credit unions and financial institutions supporting the contactless payment service in the United States. Apple Pay now has over 900 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, although it's worth noting that some banks, credit unions and financial institutions listed may have already had support for the contactless payments service and are only now being reflected on Apple's website.
The full list of new Apple Pay participating issuers:
- Air Academy Federal Credit Union
- Ballston Spa National Bank
- Bank of Commerce
- BankFive
- BNA Bank
- Capital Area Federal Credit Union
- Citizens National Bank
- Comenity Bank
- CommonWealth One Federal Credit Union
- Community Business Bank
- Community State Bank
- CoreFirst Bank & Trust
- Damascus Community Bank
- Denison Bank
- Diablo Valley Federal Credit Union
- Electrical Federal Credit Union
- Financial Center First Credit Union
- First State Bank of Arcadia
- Florence Savings Bank
- "FNB Bank, N.A."
- Fox Communities Credit Union
- Franklin Synergy Bank
- Fulton Bank of New Jersey
- "Fulton Bank, N.A."
- Hercules Credit Union
- HFS Federal Credit Union
- Iberville Bank
- Inspirus Credit Union
- Isabella Community Credit Union
- Lafayette Ambassador Bank
- Landmark Bank
- Latino Community Credit Union
- Linn Area Credit Union
- Machias Savings Bank
- Maps Credit Union
- McCoy Federal Credit Union
- Mercantile Bank
- Nicolet National Bank
- Ontario-Montclair School Employees Federal Credit Union
- Pacific Marine Credit Union
- Palmetto Citizens Federal Credit Union
- Pen Air Federal Credit Union
- Platinum Bank
- Red Rocks Credit Union
- Rockland Trust
- Saginaw Medical Federal Credit Union
- Simmons Bank
- StonehamBank
- Swineford National Bank
- Texas Bank and Trust
- The Columbia Bank
- The Evangeline Bank & Trust Co
- The First National Bank of Mount Dora
- The National Bank of Indianapolis
- Valliance Bank
- Wauchula State Bank
- West Central Bank
- Westmark Credit Union
Apple is committed to an international expansion of Apple Pay, having launched the mobile payments service in Australia and Canada in November in partnership with American Express. Apple Pay is also coming to Hong Kong, Singapore and Spain this year, and the service is rumored to launch in China by February.
Apple Pay gained support for BJ's Wholesale Club private label credit cards and 66 new U.S. issuers on December 15. On the merchant side, Cinnabon, Chili's, Domino's, KFC and Starbucks will support Apple Pay in the U.S. starting this year.
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