Android Pay Adds Support for 53 New Banks and Credit Unions

Google's tinkered with a number of payment services over the past decade (remember Google Wallet?), but recently, but it's found its niche with Android Pay. There's Tez, of course, a peer-to-peer payments application in India, but the search giant's turned most of its attention to the aforementioned Android Pay, which lets hundreds of millions of Android device users around the world complete contactless and online payments using debit cards, credit cards, gift cards, and loyalty cards. And it recently grew, adding support for 53 new banks and credit unions.

Here's a full list of the institutions that now support Android Pay:

Newly Supported Android Pay Banks and Credit Unions

• 1st Northern California CU

• Adirondack Regional Federal Credit Union

• Almena State Bank

• Bank of Milton

• Bank of the Sierra

• Bankwell Bank

• Banner Bank

• Barclaycard US

• CCB Community Bank

• Centennial Bank (TN)

• Central Alliance Credit Union

• Central National Bank & Trust – Enid

• Century Bank of Georgia

• Charter Oak FCU

• Citibank

• Coastal Heritage Bank

• Commercial State Bank

• Community First Bank Heartland

• Community First Credit Union Of Florida

• Credit One Bank

• Credit Union ONE

• Cumberland Valley National Bank

• Customers Bank/T-Mobile MONEY

• Denali Alaskan Federal CU

• Devon Bank

• EagleBank

• Element Federal Credit Union

• Farmers & Merchants Bank of Ashland

• Farmers & Merchants of Long Beach

• Farmers National Bank

• First Bankers Trust Company, NA

• First Bristol Federal Credit Union

• First Coast Federal CU

• First Community Bank, National Association

• First Federal Bank

• First Federal Savings and Loan Association of McMinnville

• First National Bank Texas

• First Nations Bank

• First Premier Bank

• First State Bank of the Southeast

• Fort Hood National Bank

• Fox Communities Credit Union

• Gerber Federal Credit Union

• Greenfield Savings Bank

• Guaranty Bank & Trust (CBHI)

• Hills Bank and Trust Company

• Holy Rosary Credit Union

• Holyoke Credit Union

• Home National Bank

• Huntington National Bank

• Illini State Bank

• Kohler Credit Union

• Lincoln Park

• Community Credit Union

Android Pay might not be as feature-rich as some of its competitors, but Google's paid the contactless payment app a lot of love lately. In October, Google rolled out transaction notifications that show basic information about recent purchases, and in May, the Moutain View, California-based company launched Android Pay in Canada.

Google launched Android Pay in September 2015 in the United States. Since then, the application's rolled out to ten other regions around the world including New Zealand, U.K., Australia, Japan, Poland, and Hong Kong, Russia, Spain, Brazil, and Taiwan. But it's not particularly popular; according to Payments.com, Android Pay usage peaked at 1.8 percent of all mobile wallet users in 2017. With any luck, the new territories and banks will help turn that number around.

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Source: Google

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