Apple updated its Apple Pay participating issuers list today with 35 additional banks, credit unions and financial institutions supporting the contactless payment service in the United States. Apple Pay **w has over 375 Participating Issuers nationwide, and dozens 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 **ting that some banks, credit unions and financial institutions listed may have already had support for the contactless payments service and are only **w being reflected on Apple's website.
Apple Pay is accepted at nearly 750,000 locations in the United States and United Kingdom, and Apple is committed to an international rollout of the mobile payments service in additional countries such as Canada and China in the near future.
Canada could be the next country to embrace the service outside of the U.S. and U.K. in **vember. The country has already migrated to Chip-and-PIN debit and credit cards and many retailers and businesses have since upgraded to NFC-based terminals to accept contactless payments.