Apple Pay Now Works at 45 More U.S. Banks and Credit Unions
Apple updated its Apple Pay participating issuers list today with 45 additional banks, credit unions and financial institutions supporting the contactless payment service in the U.S. Apple Pay now has 1045 participating issuers nationwide, including 1043 U.S. banks and credit unions and store card support at BJ's Wholesale Club and Kohl's.
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:
- ABNB Federal Credit Union
- Beneficial Bank
- Central Bank & Trust Co.
- Central Bank of Jefferson County
- Chartway Federal Credit Union
- Chicopee Savings Bank
- Commerce Bank of Washington
- Commonwealth Bank & Trust Company
- Cornerstone Community Bank
- Cortrust Bank
- Dow Chemical Employees' Credit Union
- Duke University Federal Credit Union
- Exchange Bank
- Fannin Bank
- First Electronic Bank
- First State Bank and Trust Company
- Guadalupe National Bank
- Heritage Grove Federal Credit Union
- Heritage South Community Credit Union
- Jackson Community Federal Credit Union
- KALSEE Credit Union
- Kitsap Bank
- Lake County Educational Federal Credit Union
- Lakeland Bank
- Lone Star State Bank of West Texas
- Louisiana Federal Credit Union
- Mainstreet Credit Union
- Monroe Bank & Trust
- Mutual Credit Union
- Nassau Educators Federal Credit Union
- New Era Bank
- North Carolina Press Association Federal Credit Union
- Northwest Community Bank
- Option 1 Credit Union
- Otero Federal Credit Union
- PlainsCapital Bank
- Richfield Bloomington Credit Union
- Sanford Institution for Savings
- Town & Country Federal Credit Union
- Trinity Bank
- TruStone Financial Federal Credit Union
- Tulsa Federal Credit Union
- Virginia National Bank
- West-Aircomm Federal Credit Union
- Yakima Federal Savings
Apple Pay is now available at more than 2 million retail locations, with support rolling out at Crate & Barrel, Chick-fil-A, and Au Bon Pain locations in the U.S. this year. Cinnabon, Chili's, Domino's, KFC and Starbucks are also implementing Apple Pay support at U.S. locations starting this year.
In November, Apple Pay launched in Australia and Canada in partnership with American Express. Apple Pay is also coming for American Express cardholders in Hong Kong, Singapore and Spain this year, and the iPhone-based payments service officially went live in China in partnership with interbank network UnionPay earlier this week.
Apple Pay gained support for BJ's Wholesale Club private label credit cards and 66 new U.S. issuers on December 15, plus nearly another 60 issuers on January 5. Apple Pay is now accepted by over 1000 U.S. banks and credit unions.
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