As expected, Apple has today announced that it has extended support for Apple Pay into yet another country. As initially reported back in June, Apple had used this year's WWDC opening keynote to briefly touch on the progress and future plans for Apple Pay, announcing that the contactless payment solution would be coming soon to Switzerland, Hong Kong and France. It's been just over three weeks since that announcement, but we can now confirm that Apple Pay is officially available to use in Switzerland.
As expected, Apple used the opening keynote of WWDC 2016 to officially announce that Apple Pay is expanding into three more regions. As part of a partnership with new banks, Apple's contactless mobile payment platform is now confirmed to be launching in Switzerland, France and Hong Kong, meaning that not only will Apple Pay be soon available in 9 countries in total, but this announcement makes Switzerland and France only the second and third European countries to fly the flag for Apple Pay alongside the United Kingdom.
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China has officially become the fifth location for the rollout out of Apple Pay mobile payment solution. The Cupertino-based company's partnership with UnionPay was widely reported a number of months ago, where it was also noted that the collaboration would see Apple able to penetrate the Chinese market with Apple Pay. That partnership has now come to fruition with the payment platform launching in the market thanks to UnionPay's wide-ranging infrastructure that's supported by multiple banks in the country.
New rumors have French banks already working to bring Apple Pay to the country while their Chinese counterparts are starting to confirm that the service will be switched on come Thursday morning.
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Apple today has launched support for Apple Pay in Canada for those with American Express cards while those in the UK get two more supported financial institutions in the country. Here are the details.















