Just days after Raiffeisen Bank launched Apple Pay in Romania, a new bank begins to promote the availability of the mobile payment system for customers in our country. OTP Bank announces that it is preparing the launch of Apple Pay in Romania, although it does not specify whether it will take a day, a month, a year, until its customers will be able to use their iPhones or Apple Watches to make mobile payments at the POS in the country.
OTP Bank would join Raiffeisen Bank, ING, Banca Transilvania, Unicredit Bank, Orange Money, Revolut, Edenred and Monese with the availability of Apple Pay, a large number of financial institutions having the system in the country. Although the banks have not announced details about the people who have already activated Apple Pay, it is more than likely that there are several hundred thousand people who use the system on iPhone phones, it being highly awaited by Romanians.
A New Bank Announces the Launch of Apple Pay in Romania
The announcement from OTP Bank leaves the clients of BRD, BCR, CEC, and other Romanian banks out of the circle of those who can use Apple Pay, and in their case we are talking about millions of clients without the system. The first two banks have announced that they will have Apple Pay available to customers this year, but in the case of CEC, it is possible that the launch will only take place in 2020, so if you use their services, you may have to wait longer than you expected. desired.
OTP Bank should not charge any commission for using Apple Pay in Romania, as is the case with other banks that have chosen to offer their customers Apple's mobile payment system, in tandem with their own. I will let you know when OTP Bank will have the possibility to activate Apple Pay for customers, but it is possible that a new update for iOS will be necessary to launch the system.
