Google Pay support comes to new banks in nine different countries

Google Pay may have become indispensible for many users at the height of the pandemic. Nevertheless, its worldwide availability remains incomplete, which might be antagonizing for some with compatible devices and the inability to use them. However, some might have come into a solution at last.

Banks in 9 new countries are now listed as capable of offering Google Pay to their account-holders. In the majority of cases, there is only 1 per new nation:

• Airwallex Pty Ltd (Australia)
• Alpha Bank (Greece)
• Cassa Centrale Banca (Italy) 
• Cencosud (Chile)
• DiPocket (Bulgaria and Romania)
• Joint Stock Company OKCI Bank (Ukraine)
• CIMB (Singapore)

In addition, users from the last on the list may also find the "peer-to-peer payments" potions in the app is active, a function only heretofore open to US users. Switzerland is also included in this roll-out, with a count of newly Google Pay-compatible banks that inflates its number to nearly 80.

However, many of them are different branches of the same branch, meaning that there are multiple entries for institutions such as Spar- und Leihkasse in evidence. The list edited for duplicates looks more like this:

•     Aargauische Kantonalbank
•     acrevis Bank AG
•     AEK BANK 1826 Genossenschaft
•     Alpha Rheintal Bank AG
•     Appenzeller Kantonalbank
•     Banca dello Stato del Canton Ticino
•     Bank Avera
•     Bank BSU
•     Bank Cler AG
•     Bank EEK AG
•     Bank EKI Genossenschaft
•     Bank Gantrisch Genossenschaft
•     Bank in Zuzwil
•     Bank J. Safra Sarasin Ltd
•     Bank Julius Bär & Co AG
•     Bank Leerau Genossenschaft
•     Bank Oberaargau AG
•     Bank SLM AG
•     Bank Sparhafen Zürich
•     Bank Thalwil
•     Bank Zimmerberg AG
•     Banque Cantonale de Fribourg
•     Basellandschaftliche Kantonalbank
•     Basler Kantonalbank
•     BBO Bank Brienz Oberhasli
•     Berner Kantonalbank
•     Bernerland Bank AG
•     C.I.M. Banque
•     Caisse d'Epargne Couary SA
•     Clientis Bank
•     Crédit Mutuel de la Vallée
•     Ersparniskasse Affoltern im Emmental AG
•     Glarner Kantonalbank
•     Gonet & Cie Banquiers Privee
•     Graubündner Kantonalbank
•     GRB Glarner Regionalbank Genossenschaft
•     Jumbo
•     Leihkasse Stammheim
•     Lienhardt & Partner Privat
•     Luzerner Kantonalbank AG
•     Maerki, Baumann & Co AG
•     Manor
•     Migros Bank AG
•     Nidwaldner Kantonalbank
•     Obwaldner Kantonalbank
•     Regiobank Männedorf AG
•     Regiobank Solothurn
•     Rothschild Bank AG
•     SB Saanen Bank AG
•     Schaffhauser Kantonalbank
•     Schwyzer Kantonalbank
•     Spar + Leihkasse Gürbetal
•     Spar- und Leihkasse Bucheggberg AG
•     Sparkasse Schwyz AG
•     St. Galler Kantonalbank AG
•     Thurgauer Kantonalbank
•     Urner Kantonalbank
•     Valiant Bank
•     Zuger Kantonalbank
•     Zürcher Kantonalbank
•     Zürcher Landbank AG