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Apple Pay is Coming Soon to Austria, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Estonia, Greece, Romania, and Luxembourg

Wednesday March 27, 2019 6:13 am PDT by Joe Rossignol

Apple Pay appears to be on the cusp of another European expansion, with upcoming availability in at least seven additional countries.

Mobile banking service N26 today on its Twitter account announced that ‌Apple Pay‌ will soon be available in Estonia, Greece, Portugal, Slovakia, and Slovenia, one day after revealing that Apple Pay is coming soon to Austria. Likewise, ING Bank has announced that ‌Apple Pay‌ is coming soon to Romania.

Coming Soon! @n26 will bring #ApplePay, which is transforming mobile payments with an easy, secure and private way to pay that’s fast and convenient to customers in Estonia 🇪🇪, Greece 🇬🇷, Portugal 🇵🇹, Slovakia 🇸🇰, and Slovenia 🇸🇮! pic.twitter.com/iWgyH7pBYA

— N26 (@n26) March 27, 2019

Hey André, it's true! 😊 ‌Apple Pay‌ will be coming to Portugal soon, please keep an eye out on our social media for further updates on the release!

— N26 Support (@N26_Support) March 27, 2019

Ne-ai tot intrebat "pe cand si la noi".
Acum putem in sfarsit sa iti raspundem "in curand".#ApplePay #ingromania pic.twitter.com/SbyFWP2Quk

— ING Romania (@ing_ro) March 27, 2019

Slovakian bank Slovenská sporiteľňa confirmed that it will start supporting ‌Apple Pay‌ later this year, as reported by Zive.sk.

‌Apple Pay‌ has been gradually expanding across Europe and the Middle East, including Belgium and Kazakhstan in November, Germany in December, and Czech Republic and Saudi Arabia last month. Apple said the service, which debuted in the U.S. in October 2014, will be available in over 40 regions by the end of 2019.

(Thanks, André and Aurel!)

Update: ‌Apple Pay‌ is also coming soon to Luxembourg via BGL BNP Paribas.

(Thanks, Eric Cancela!)

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Bram.96

14 months ago

Ok this is getting ridiculous. Like honestly, almost every country in the EU has or is gonna get Apple Pay besides The Netherlands, one of the biggest economies in the EU. What is the holdup? I’ve used Apple Pay using a workaround via bunq here in the Netherlands and have had zero places where I couldn’t use it, so that can’t be it. ING, which is a Dutch bank, supports Apple Pay in several countries so you already have two banks down here who theoretically could support it.

Score: 16 Votes (Like | Disagree)

Letterb

14 months ago

Absolutely pathetic that it's not here yet in the Netherlands. I don't know whose fault this is, but I find it quite bad.

Score: 14 Votes (Like | Disagree)

pjotr90

14 months ago

Yes lets email Tim to ask why it isn’t available in the Netherlands. It’s weird. All our neighbours have it.

Score: 12 Votes (Like | Disagree)

ipedro

14 months ago

This is great. I travel frequently to Portugal and even though they have tap payments, Apple Pay fails more often than not. It’ll be good to be able to just carry my Watch or iPhone like I do in Toronto. Wallet Free since 2016.

Portugal has a very strong cashless culture with their bank machines a central part of every day life. Apple Pay will do very well there.

Score: 9 Votes (Like | Disagree)

citysnaps

14 months ago

Applepay. Just another way for apple to get their grubby mitts into your wallet.

Paying for stuff the other way was just SOOOO hard. Thank god apple has come along to make our first world lives ever so slightly easier.

It seems you don't understand the consumer benefits of anonymized token-based financial transactions.

Score: 7 Votes (Like | Disagree)

StructAural

14 months ago

I'm with ABN AMRO and wallet is supported (for ages now) on all Android devices. iPhone not. Bloody joke, mate.
[doublepost=1553693607][/doublepost]Personally I think it's an Apple Greed problem. Banks here don't take too kindly to giving a cut to Apple and the Netherlands has the one of the best banking infrastructure in the world and we had PIN payments before most other countries.

Interesting article here about it:
https://www.nu.nl/mobiel/5623808/waarom-er-nog-geen-apple-pay-in-nederland.html

Score: 5 Votes (Like | Disagree)

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