Google's mobile payment system, Android Pay, continues to grow bigger through the signing of different agreements that allow its integration with new banking entities, savings banks and the like.
If you read us from the United States, you should know that the company has announced the incorporation of another nine banks (all of them small banks), so maybe you can already use Android Pay from your smartphone.
Since its inception, Android Pay has come a long way. Nowadays, most major banks support Android Pay in the United States, but so are many small credit unions and local banks. from its humble beginnings. Most of the big banks are supported, and even many small credit unions and local banks.
Now Nine more banks have integrated the Android Pay payment system. Most of them are small entities. If you are reading us from the United States and you still could not use Android mobile payments with your bank, check the following list to see if this time you were lucky:
- First American Bank
- First Interstate Bank
- Gruver State Bank
- NBKC Bank
- Norway Savings Bank
- Ollo
- River Valley Community Bank
- Timberland Bank
- Trustco Bank
If you have a credit card or a debit card issued by any of the above financial / banking entities, you should be able to add it to Android Pay by now. Some banks require a somewhat complicated activation process, all in order to guarantee security, but this is usually not the case for smaller entities.
Android Pay is operating in the United States, Australia, Hong Kong, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, Poland, Singapore, and the United Kingdom. To use it you will also need an Android smartphone with NFC and Android 4.4 KitKat or higher. You can consult the complete list of banks here.