According to a report by TechCrunch, Bank Of America and Wells Fargo are both working on bringing Apple Pay to their ATMs. Sources familiar with the teams on the project say that engineers at both banks have been given multi-month assignments to build the Apple Pay options. Wells Fargo’s head of ATMs Jonathan Velline has also hinted that Apple Pay is coming to their ATMs in the US.
“We’ve been working on the technology that allows us to hook to digital wallets, leveraging NFC on mobile phones to replace the card at the transaction at the ATM. Right now the wallet that we support is Android Pay.”
Velline continued “But we’re also looking at lots of different mobile wallets and evaluating which ones are going to be appropriate for our customers. We’ll likely add more mobile wallets throughout the year.”
On repeatedly asking whether he was implying if one of those mobile wallets would be Apple Pay, he admitted with a laugh “I think that’s a good assessment”, the source reports.
Similarly, when Bank Of America’s Consumer Banking Products press representative Betty Riess was asked whether its ATMS would work with Apple Pay, she said, “We already have number of mobile wallet programs…” Implying Apple Pay could join them soon. She also confirmed that Bank Of America is actively working on a cardless ATM solution.
Canadians are still waiting for major Canadian banks to support Apple Pay and hopefully one day the iPhone will replace debit cards at ATMs.
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Yes, i wonder which decade it will be when Canadian banks are as forward looking as the US banks.
I hope to be able to use this tech at an ATM before I reach 65
Unfortunately I’ve passed that milestone already so I may have wait a lot longer.
…we can only dream about having this in Canada…
One day, Apple Pay will rule the world (except in Canada).
I dream that ONE DAY! We will leave our place of residence with ONE THING in our pockets…. AN iPhone!!
Down with wallets!
I just want a bloody NFC chip embedded into my hand already!
Everytime I see an Apple Pay article posted here, I always get my hopes up… only to be let down when it’s not about the service’s expansion in Canada… 🙁
This country & it’s adoption of technology is going in reverse compared with the USA & the likes.