On December 1 and after a long wait, Banco Santander users in Spain saw the arrival of Apple Pay. Actually this was a movement calculated for a long time by Apple since they had been saying that Apple Pay would arrive in Spain before the end of 2016 and it came, just but it did. In any case, the rumor about its launch came a day before it became official and now what has been leaked online is an advertising image of ING Direct in which this payment service is advertised through the iPhone, Apple Watch and the rest of the firm's devices.
This MacRumors leak shows a clear advertising photo of ING with Apple Pay, so you could be about to launch this payment service for your customers, but it does in Australia. This does not mean that users from the rest of the world who use this bank can see the activation of the service in a few hours, but it is true that since it is an entity that basically operates online, the activation can be massive.
In any case, we are seeing the advance of Apple Pay slowly between different banks outside the United States, where the expansion is more powerful. We all would like it to be a little more fluid but we understand that it requires time to negotiate all the points of interest both from Apple and from the bank itself that is going to offer the service. For now, this news is nothing more than a rumor / leak that we hope will be officially confirmed In the next few hours by ING and incidentally that this service is not focused exclusively on customers in Australia and is extended to all those who have this entity.