Another 46 US banks signed up to Apple Pay in September. Apple’s mobile wallet platform, launched last October, has now signed up 500 of the country’s banks, including the largest – but have they made a mistake?
The US is the first country to receive Apple Pay but its retail payments infrastructure is the least supportive of advanced digital wallet technology. Apple Pay and the US banks may be ready to go, but “if only 5% of places in the US accept NFC then it’s not yet at the forefront of consumers’ minds when they go to a merchant,” says Thiago Olson, chief executive of payments card, Stratos.
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