Apple Pay charges into Canada

Apple Pay charges into Canada—and Australia

Apple's contactless payment service expands above the border—and into Oz. The last year has been frustrating. Apple launched Apple Pay in the U.S. back in October of 2014 and yet, despite having far, far, far better infrastructure for contactless payments in Canada and other countries, all we could do is watch from the sidelines. Well, that changes today, thanks to American Express. While Apple Pay is also launching with American Express in Australia on Thursday, I'm in Canada, that's the implementation I had a chance to test out, and so that's what I'm going to focus on. Most of it should be really, really similar though. That it's American Express bringing Apple Pay to Canada rather than any of our national banks is interesting for me as a customer (and kind of embarrassing for our banks as businesses.) American Express, like Apple, is an integrated vendor and that lets them not only be nimble, it lets them be bold. And the future, like fortune, favors the bold. With Americ...<br clear='all'/>

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