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NEW YORK —Apple’s mobile-payments service is expanding to more countries, banks and merchants.
Apple Pay is available in Canada starting Tuesday and Australia on Thursday. Those are two countries where “tap” payments — tapping a phone or chip-embedded card to the store’s payment machine — are more common than in the U.S. In those countries, however, Apple Pay is limited initially to American Express cards.
In the U.S., the service expanded Tuesday to more than 100 additional card issuers — mostly smaller banks and credit unions. Apple Pay already accepts Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover cards from most major banks. In the U.K., Tesco and TSB banks will join Apple Pay. The Associated Press
