Update: KBC Bank has retracted its original statement, now saying in a second tweet that Apple Pay is “not yet in scope.”
Apple Pay may be making its way to Belgium following WWDC, KBC Bank indicated on Twitter today. The bank recently added NFC support to its payment cards, prompting a customer to ask if the institution would ever add support for Apple Pay.
The bank replied that the service would be available starting this summer, indicating a possible announcement at WWDC. Other countries and financial institutions worldwide are likely to gain support as well around that time.
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I hope WWDC announces that Apple Pay will be coming to Canada this summer !
Ours is November. They already confirmed it. But I hope it’ll be earlier than that.
Seems so far away :(
At least I’ll have my new device by then.
Where has it been confirmed that it is coming to Canada in November?
Who confirmed it? It is just rumour right now. I suspect an official announcement at the WWDC but maybe not starting at or right after the WWDC.
It was “by November”. These assumptions usually turn out to be overestimates as a safety net, so I’d imagine we’ll hear about it at WWDC and have it released within the next couple months.
I’d think they would rather have an Apple Store first, but ok. Supposedly they are opening their first Store there later this year. (can’t check as the ifo site is currently down)
I had a representative on the apple store online chat tell me I’d be able to use Apple Pay in the UK “very soon” whilst I was talking about the watch. I know they say lots of things, but surely they wouldn’t tell me “very soon” if they had no information, I mean why even bring it up?
While it would be great to use Apple Pay here in the UK, don’t hold your breath. The US is a completely different market to the UK. They don’t have Chip & Pin, which we have had for ten years, so financial institutions will welcome the security that Apple Pay brings over there.
Remember, to make Apple Pay “work” each bank needs employees AND Apple hardware. In addition, each time someone uses Apple Pay Apple get’s a percentage of the transaction fee – money which the bank will never get to see.
Now if you where a banking institution which already had a relatively secure banking system, would you want to spend money on staff, new infrastructure, marketing materials etc so that another business can take a percentage of your profit?
“Now if you where a banking institution which already had a relatively secure banking system, would you want to spend money on staff, new infrastructure, marketing materials etc so that another business can take a percentage of your profit?”
If enough customers want it they would.
I will change my credit card / bank to the first to offer Apple Pay. I suspect many others will do the same. Lets see how that influences the market :-)
https://twitter.com/KBC_BE/status/601059402335035393
Well, that was short lived. xD
Nice Translation ” Apple will Pay will now that your bank cards to support NFC Payments”