Apple Pay Now Accepted by 1000 U.S. Issuers

Apple updated its Apple Pay participating issuers list today with 32 additional banks, credit unions and financial institutions supporting the contactless payment service in the U.S. Apple Pay now has 1000 participating issuers nationwide, including 998 U.S. banks and credit unions and store card support at BJ's Wholesale Club and Kohl's.

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:

• Anderson Brothers Bank
  

• Bank & Trust Company
  

• Bank of Labor
  

• Bank of Yazoo
  

• BankWest
  

• Brown County State Bank
  

• Busey Bank
  

• Campbell & Fetter Bank
  

• Central Bank of Oklahoma
  

• Collinsville Savings Society
  

• Core Bank
  

• Covantage Credit Union
  

• Diversified Members Credit Union
  

• Farmington Bank
  

• Florida Parishes Bank
  

• Fort Worth Community Credit Union
  

• Great Midwest Bank
  

• Horizon Bank, N.A.
  

• Litchfield Bancorp
  

• Luther Burbank Savings
  

• Mississippi National Guard Federal Credit Union
  

• Oregon Community Credit Union
  

• Pathfinder Bank
  

• Platinum Federal Credit Union
  

• Qualstar Credit Union
  

• Red River Bank
  

• Seven Seventeen Credit Union
  

• T Bank
  

• The Citizens Bank
  

• Titonka Savings Bank
  

• US Employees O.C. Federal Credit Union
  

• Wallis State Bank

Apple Pay is now available at more than 2 million retail locations, with support coming to Crate & Barrel, Chick-fil-A, and Au Bon Pain locations in the U.S. soon. Cinnabon, Chili's, Domino's, KFC and Starbucks will also support Apple Pay in the U.S. starting this year.

In November, Apple Pay launched in Australia and Canada in November in partnership with American Express. Apple Pay is also coming for American Express cardholders in Hong Kong, Singapore and Spain this year, and the service appears to have soft launched in China last month in partnership with UnionPay.

Apple Pay gained support for BJ's Wholesale Club private label credit cards and 66 new U.S. issuers on December 15, plus nearly another 60 issuers on January 5.