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Service Apple Pay is supported by major financial institutions in the United States, United Kingdom and China, but mobile payments can only be used with non-bank American Express credit cards in Australia and Canada. Apple Pay it does not support the big banks in either of these two countries. 

That could soon change, at least in Canada, as the server Macrumors found out, MasterCard plans to start supporting Apple Pay in this country by the end of 2016. The data is based on an unverified internal document, so it cannot be proven that MasterCard really plans until more evidence comes to light.

Master credit cardsCarVisa cards are issued by a number of Canada's largest banks, including BMO, CIBC, RBC, Scotiabank and TD Canada Trust, while store-issued cards are available from major retailers such as Canadian Tire, Costco and Walmart. Most of these stores and institutions also offer Visa, but their plans are unknown at this time.

According to the document, MasterCard is trying to start supporting Apple Pay also in Brazil, Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore in 2016. Apple previously announced that its partnership with American Express would expand to Hong Kong, Singapore and Spain this year, while Brazil and Japan would be brand new markets.

Meanwhile, it surfaced that Apple is preparing support Apple Pay in Franceancii. Apple could make an announcement in September 2016, it is possible that he is already doing so on WWDC in June. The original report did not specify when it would be Apple Pay available in Frenchancin the shops of Ous, nor information about what francUkrainian banks will support payments iPhonem.

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*Source: Macrumors

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