Apple Pay Gains 54 New Participating Issuers in United States
Apple updated its Apple Pay participating issuers list today with 54 additional banks, credit unions and financial institutions supporting the contactless payment service in the United States. Apple Pay now has over 650 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:
- Alternatives Federal Credit Union
- Army Aviation Center Federal Credit Union
- Artisans' Bank
- Bank of Eastman
- Bank of Rantoul
- Bridgeview Bank Group
- Carson Bank
- Calumet Bank
- Catholic & Community Credit Union
- Central State Bank
- Charter Oak Federal Credit Union
- Citizens First Bank
- Cornerstone Bank
- Cornerstone National Bank
- Credit Union of America
- Drummond Community Bank
- Education Employees Credit Union
- First Community Credit Union (MO)
- First Federal Bank of the Midwest
- First Piedmont Federal Savings and Loan Association
- Genisys Credit Union
- German American
- Gorham Savings Bank
- Greenwood Credit Union
- Houston Texas Fire Fighters Federal Credit Union
- Hudson River Community Credit Union
- InTouch Credit Union
- KV Federal Credit Union
- Lexington Postal Credit Union
- Macatawa Bank
- Maine Family Federal Credit Union
- Marion State Bank
- Missouri Bank
- Missouri Credit Union
- Mocse Credit Union
- Municipal Employees Credit Union of Oklahoma City
- Mutual Bank
- Newaygo County Service Employees Credit Union
- Oak Trust Credit Union
- Peoples Bank (WA)
- Peoples Bank (AR)
- Polish & Slavic Federal Credit Union
- PyraMax Bank
- Settlers Federal Credit Union
- The Bank
- The Provident Bank
- Tri City National Bank
- TwinStar Credit Union
- UMassFive College Federal Credit Union
- United Equity Credit Union
- United Savings Credit Union
- University of Kentucky Federal Credit Union
- Upper Peninsula State Bank
- Weokie Credit Union
Apple Pay remains limited to the United States and United Kingdom, although Apple is committed to an international rollout of the mobile payments service in additional countries such as Australia and Canada in the future.
WSJ reported that Apple is planning a November launch of Apple Pay in Canada. Apple Pay will also be available to eligible American Express customers in Canada and Australia later this year, in addition to Spain, Singapore and Hong Kong in 2016.
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