Android Pay adds support for tons of new banks; is yours on the list?

Back in the good old days of Google Wallet, you were free to sign up with whatever card you chose. But when Google moved its tap-and-pay operation over to Android Pay last year, a lot of the service's inner working suddenly changed – and that included the new hurdle of needing to have your card-issuing bank on Google's approved list before you could get started with mobile payments. To its credit, Google's been working to add more institutions to its list of participating banks, and today we really see support start to explode, as Android Pay accepts cards for another four dozen banks.

The big winner in this round of additions are credit unions, and we've got lots of local and regional credit unions starting to give their members access to Android Pay.

Also among the list of newly supported institutions is Capital One, currently the eighth largest bank in the US.

Of course, while these new additions are fantastic to see, Android Pay is still missing support for some big-name banks, and that's going to continue to haunt Google's service until the company can put the needed deals in place to secure Android Pay access for those customers. We don't want that to detract too much from this week's big progress, but there's still a long way to go.


New banks:

• Advia Credit Union
• Affinity Plus Federal Credit Union
• Alcoa Tenn Federal Credit Union
• Altra Federal Credit Union
• Amegy Bank
• Arsenal FCU
• Bank-Fund Staff Federal Credit Union
• Bank of England (England, Arkansas)
• Benchmark Federal Credit Union
• Blackhawk Community Credit Union
• California Bank & Trust
• Capital One
• Catholic and Community CU
• Centier Bank
• Citizens Bank & Trust Company
• Consumers Cooperative FCU
• dominion Credit Union
• Fidelity Bank
• First Atlantic CU
• First Community Credit Union
• Great Lakes Credit Union
• Greater Iowa Credit Union
• Hiway Federal Credit Union
• Inova Federal Credit Union
• Justice Federal Credit Union
• KeyBank
• Lake Michigan Credit Union
• Marine Federal Credit Union
• MAX Credit Union
• Metro Health Services Federal Credit Union
• Mission Federal Credit Union
• Nasa Federal Credit Union
• National Bank of Arizona
• Nevada State Bank
• Numark Credit Union
• Nusenda Federal Credit Union
• Oregon Community Credit Union
• Richfield/Bloomington Credit Union (rbcu)
• San Mateo Credit Union
• Suncoast Federal Credit Union
• The Bank of Northwest Kansas
• Truwest Credit Union
• University Federal Credit Union
• UW Credit Union
• Vectra Bank Colorado
• Vinton County National Bank
• Wright Patman Congressional Federal Credit Union
• Zions Bank

source: Google (compare to previous list) via Droid Life