Bank Islam was established in 1983 mainly to serve the needs of Malaysia’s Muslim population, providing Shariah-compliant financial services including cards, and even stockbroking on Bursa Malaysia.
Read on to find out how you can use your Bank Islam card and its compatibility with Apple Pay. We’ll also explore an alternative, an Apple wallet compatible multi-currency card – the Wise card.
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Apple Pay is a free application on which you can add one or multiple debit cards to your phone, watch, or Apple device. This way, you can make contactless mobile payments in stores without your physical cards and save your card and shipping details on your devices for ease of shopping online.
Apple Pay also allows the addition of various other documents like boarding passes, public transportation cards, and even rewards cards (subject to compatibility). Users can then access these cards and passes directly from their iPhone lock screen, without having to comb through files and emails.
Does Bank Islam support Apple Pay? If you want to use your Apple Pay with your Bank Islam card, unfortunately, you can’t add your Bank Islam card to your Apple Wallet1.
Bank Islam has credit cards with no compounding charges, as well as co-branded debit cards-i designed for every lifestyle. The bank is fully Shariah-compliant, and the Bank Islam Card, the first purely Shariah contract based credit card to be offered to Muslims and non-Muslims in Malaysia.
If you’re on the search for banks or cards supported by Apple Pay for ease of usage, the following list is where you can look:
| 🤔 Did you know: Both the physical and virtual Wise card can be added to Apple Pay? Click here to learn how else to use your Wise virtual card |
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Google Pay to Android users is what Apple Pay is to iOS users – a seamless way to make contactless transactions in-store or online via the payment platform. As of now, Google Pay, too, does not support Bank Islam cards. Hence, those who want to use Apple Pay or Google Pay, need to look to other cards that are compatible with their chosen digital payment platform.
To use the Google Pay function on your devices, here are a list of compatible banks and cards² for your consideration:
For a bank-neutral multi-currency card alternative to Bank Islam, consider getting a Wise card for seamless transactions. The Wise card is compatible with both Apple Pay and Google Pay, which means no matter what digital payment platform you’re on, you have access to quick contactless payments. Wise also works internationally at merchants and stores that accept contactless payments.
All currency conversions on Wise use the mid-market rate as shown on Google, with low fees starting from 0.33% with absolutely no hidden fees⁶. With the Wise card, you can also enjoy some ATM withdrawals of up to 1,000 MYR per month. Have your very own Wise card delivered to you in just 5 working days – order now with a one-time fee of 13.70 MYR which grants you access to both the virtual and physical cards.
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Wondering how to actually get card details up on Apple Pay or Google Pay? Just follow these simple steps and start making contactless payments abroad with low fees.
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