Who owns Apple Pay?
Apple Pay is owned by Apple (the United States, NASDAQ: AAPL).[1]
Evidence: Apple Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2025-10-31, SEC EDGAR, 31 October 2025. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Apple Inc. verified
- Owner HQ
- 🇺🇸 United States, Cupertino
- Origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Category
- Internet & digital › Digital services › Payments
- Parent ticker
- NASDAQ: AAPL
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Apple Pay
Apple Pay is the cashless payment service the company lists in its annual report under payment services, next to Apple Card, a co-branded credit card. The filing places both in Apple's services business rather than in its hardware lines, and says Apple operates the service itself, not as a feature of any one device.
Ownership timeline of Apple Pay
Where Apple Pay sits in Apple
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Apple
Apple controls 9 brands on Brandtree, 9 of them in internet & digital.
Also in internet & digital
Other brands in payments, and who owns them
The 36 brands in payments on Brandtree belong to 19 owners. The largest is PayPal, with 4.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| GoPay | GoTo | 🇮🇩 Indonesia |
| Kaspi Alaqan | Kaspi.kz | 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan |
| Braintree | PayPal | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Afterpay | Block | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Rakuten Card | Rakuten | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| AzamPay | Bakhresa | 🇹🇿 Tanzania |
| GrabPay | Grab | 🇸🇬 Singapore |
| Mercado Crédito | MercadoLibre | 🇺🇾 Uruguay |
About the owner: Apple
Apple is a publicly listed company headquartered in Cupertino, United States. Brandtree records 9 brands under its control, and it is listed as NASDAQ: AAPL.
Apple Inc. is a California corporation headquartered in Cupertino whose common stock trades on Nasdaq as AAPL. Its annual report describes a line of smartphones, personal computers, tablets, wearables and home devices, each built on an operating system the company also makes, plus services such as the App Store, Apple Music and Apple Pay. This entry covers the software and service names the 10-K for the year to September 2025 lists; it does not list the hardware product lines (iPhone, Mac, iPad) as brands.
🇺🇸 Apple Pay and other American brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,399 brands that began in the United States. 461 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Apple Pay is not one of them.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Apple Pay?
The parent company of Apple Pay is Apple, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Is Apple Pay American?
Yes. Apple Pay originated in the United States and its owner, Apple, is also headquartered in the United States.
Is Apple Pay still owned by Apple?
Yes. As of 4 October 2026, Apple Pay is still owned by Apple. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Apple Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2025-10-31 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K, published 31 October 2025; retrieved 4 October 2026.
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