Apple Updates its Apple Pay Participating Issuers List Today with 35 New Institutions

RaduTyrsina · May 20, 2015

A number of 35 new banks, credit unions and other financial institutuons across the United States have now turned on support for Apple Pay. Thus, with this update, Apple Pay now has close to 300 participating issuers nationwide, with several hundred more planning to support the NFC-based mobile payment service in the future. Here's the full list of new Apple Pay participating issuers:

1st Financial Federal Credit Union
Affinity Bank
Bank of Springfield
Berkshire Bank
Box Elder Credit Union
C&F Bank
Capitol Federal Savings
Christian Community Credit Union
Community First Credit Union of Florida
Credit Union of Denver
Denver Community Credit Union
Education First Credit Union
Educators Credit Union
Financial Partners Credit Union
First City Credit Union
First Premier Bank
Freedom Credit Union
NASA Federal Credit Union
Numerica Credit Union
PremierOne Credit Union
Purdue Federal Credit Union
Rivermark Community Credit Union
San Francisco Federal Credit Union
Simmons First National Bank
Summit Credit Union
Synchrony Bank
The Citizen Bank of Clovis
UMe Federal Credit Union
University Federal Credit Union
Utah Power Credit Union
Valor Credit Union
Vermont Federal Credit Union
WSECU
WECU (Whatcom Educational Credit Union)

It's definitely a good thing that more and more new institutions are announcing support for Apple Pay, but what's more important for the roll-out of Apple Pay is that the number of retailers increase, as well. Also, for now, Apple Pay is available only in the United States, but Apple said it's committed to an international rollout of the mobile payments service in additional countries such as Canada, China and the United Kingdom.

Source: Apple