Apple Pay expanded to four new countries including UAE

Apple has announced the expansion of its Apple Pay service to four new countries: Denmark, Finland, Sweden and the United Arab Emirates.

The Apple Pay service runs in the UAE

At the beginning of the year, Apple had promised to launch in many other countries and has fulfilled its promise to date through the spread of service in 20 different countries, the last of which was the United Arab Emirates, Finland, Denmark and Sweden.

This expansion was announced through the Apple Developers page, which alerted application makers to add payment options through Apple Pay to their applications for secure payment or online transactions.

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The company has also launched a service page in the regional locations of each of the four countries, but it has not been more than translated pages of the English-American version of the site other than the service page on the Apple website of the United Arab Emirates, which contains its own content not translated with pictures of the UAE Business Cards and retailers.

Speaking of banks supporting service in each of the four countries are:

  • In Finland, both Nordea Group and St1 support the same situation in Sweden.
  • In Denmark, Nordea and Jyske Bank provide support for Apple’s financial services.
  • In the United Arab Emirates, users of the service will benefit from Mashreqbank, Emirates NBD, HSBC, RAKBANK, Emirates Islamic Bank and Standard Chartered Bank.

Apple announced its promise to expand the service during its third-quarter earnings conference in August when Luca Maestri announced the company’s intention to launch the service in four new countries, but could not announce the exact date until Jennifer Bailey on Sunday This week, has confirmed this when he has expected the service to be activated in these countries within days, something that has already been done.

The service is currently deployed in many countries since its launch in the United States in 2014. Unlike the four newcomers, the service supports Australia, Canada, China, France, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Russia, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan and the UK. What is expected to happen soon, according to some leaks and opinions, is that the company will launch service in the next phase in both the Netherlands and Poland and precede them in priority Germany.

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