Apple Pay appears to be on the cusp of another European expansion, with upcoming availability in at least seven additional countries.
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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.
Update: Apple Pay is also coming soon to Luxembourg via BGL BNP Paribas.
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(Thanks, Eric Cancela!)
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(View all)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.
Applepay. Just another way for apple to get their grubby mitts into your wallet.
It seems you don't understand the consumer benefits of anonymized token-based financial transactions.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.
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.
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