Apple Pay Adds 23 New U.S. Financial Institutions to Its Roster

Apple has added 23 more U.S. banks and credit unions to its roster of banks supporting its mobile payments service. Customers of the banks will now be able to pay for goods and services at participating merchants via their iPhones and Apple Watches, as well as online merchants via the iPhone and iPad.

The total 23 new banks and credit unions include:

• American Chartered Bank
• Bank-Fund Staff Federal Credit Union
• Bellco Credit Union
• EFCU Financial
• First Federal
• First National Bank
• Health Care Systems Federal Credit Union
• Keesler Federal Credit Union
• Kemba Credit Union
• Members 1st Federal Credit Union
• NorthStart Credit Union
• Parsons Federal Credit Union
• Pinnacle Bank
• Randolph Brooks Federal Credit Union
• Service Credit Union
• SRP Federal Credit Union
• SUMA (Yonkers) FCU
• Tampa Bay Federal Credit Union
• Tennessee Valley Federal Credit Union
• Tri County Area Federal Credit Union
• Trona Valley Federal Credit Union
• United Teletech Financial
• Winthrop Area FCU

As Apple Pay continues to expand in the United States, Apple prepares for the first leg of  its international expansion of the service with a U.K. launch planned for June 14th. U.K. Banks to be supported when the service launches will include First Direct, HSBC, NatWest, Nationwide Building Society, Royal Bank of Scotland, Santander and Ulster Bank. Bank of Scotland, Coutts, Halifax, Lloyds Bank, MBNA, M&S Bank and TSB Bank will come on board later in the fall.

Noticeably missing from the U.K. list is Barclays, who is at the very least delaying any Apple Pay involvement in lieu of launching its own bPay payments service. One U.K. Apple user has started an online petition aimed at convincing Barclays to offer Apple Pay compatibility to its customers.

(Via 9to5Mac)