Australian banks Bendigo and Adelaide offer Apple Pay
Australian banks Bendigo and Adelaide Bank are now supporting Apple Pay. For Bendigo customers, it means they can use Apple Pay with their Bendigo Blue bank cards as well as their Bendigo Mastercard while retaining the existing benefits linked to the cards. Bendigo and Adelaide's support comes reluctantly, however, as they had previously fought unsuccessfully to be granted access to the NFC chip used by Apple in order to offer their own competing digital wallet service.

Starting today, Bendigo and Adelaide Bank in Australia is offering support for Apple Pay. The announcement means account holders in Australia can now use Apple Pay with their Bendigo Blue Bank cards.

People who use Apple Pay with their Bendigo Bank MasterCard will continue to get the rewards and benefits that their Mastercard credit and debit cards provide.



Eligible cards also include:

Act. Mastercard® debit

Basic Black Mastercard credit

Blue Mastercard debit

Business Mastercard credit

Business Mastercard debit

CSB b-entertained Mastercard

CSB b-packaged Mastercard

Low Rate Mastercard

Low Rate Platinum Mastercard

Platinum Mastercard

Pokitpal Mastercard debit

Qantas Platinum Mastercard

Ready Red Mastercard credit

RSPCA Mastercard

Bendigo and Adelaide Bank was one of several banks that lost a fight in March to gain access to the NFC chip used in iPhones so they could offer their own integrated digital wallets to customers.

They also unsuccessfully lobbied the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to be allowed to collectively bargain with Apple and boycott Apple Pay.

(Thanks, Adam!)