Ever since the launch of Apple Pay in 2015, the feature has managed to slowly work its way on the hearts of many financial institutions. Well it seems that this feature is now winning more hearts as the count seems to be increasing. In the US alone, it managed to win the hearts of 40 more credit unions and banks that are in support of this feature. With this, the count has now gone up to 791 Apple Pay supporters.

With the recent growth and expansion of the service across various places like Australia, Canada, the companies American Express partnership seems to be really heading to a positive direction. In July, the Apple Pay was launched in UK and recently it also hit the Chinese markets. Apparently now the company is planning to target Hong Kong, Singapore and even Spain within the present year of 2016.

In an official announcement made earlier in the month, the company only in the US country, more than 2 million locations accepted the Apple Pay feature. Though the number may be big, but the matter of the fact is that in comparison to the country’s retailer count, this is a very small portion.

It is believed that new merchants are said to be a part of the list. The list for 2016 of incoming companies would include KFC, Starbucks, JC Penny, Chick‐Fil‐A, Create and Barrel, Au Bon Pain etc.

It is said that the feature was even launched in Canada, Australia and United Kingdom Last year, while expansion towards Spain, Singapore, Hong Kong and China was being target in 2016. With the new expansions, it is natural that the list of supporters is bound to increase to new numbers. As of now, the customer’s of the present and updated list can enjoy the service while others will wait patiently until it’s their turn.