Eastern Bank Now Offers Apple Pay for Its Tewksbury Customers

If you’re an Eastern Bank customer you now have access to Apple Pay to make mobile payments.

Eastern Bank is located at 1800 Main St. in Tewksbury.

Eastern Bank customers now have access to Apple Pay™, the new mobile payments service from Apple® that provides an easy and secure way to pay with an iPhone®, iPad® or Apple Watch™, the bank announced Tuesday.

With Apple Pay, bank customers can add their Eastern Bank Debit MasterCard®and use their iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, Apple Watch, iPad Air 2 or iPad mini 3 to pay in person without physically swiping the actual card.

“Eastern Bank is committed to making banking easier for our customers by offering innovative technologies such as Apple Pay,” said Richard E. Holbrook, Chairman and CEO, Eastern Bank in a statement released Tuesday. “As more people turn to their mobile device for services of all kinds, we’re there to provide the best financial solutions for our customers.”

With the introduction of Apply Pay, Eastern customers can now pay just by holding their iPhone near a contactless reader with their finger on Touch ID™ or enter a passcode and their transaction will be authenticated in seconds.

With today’s Apple Pay rollout, Eastern continues to build upon its history of putting digital technologies first to make banking easier for its customers:

• In May 2015, Eastern became the first company in North America and the first bank in the United States to identify callers by the sound of their voice in its Customer Service Center (1-800-EASTERN).

• In April 2014, the bank established Eastern Labs, a research and development group that uses the digital and data assets of the company to build a broader platform for innovation in financial services.

• Since 2013, Eastern has opened three “branch-of-the-future” prototypes, including one that shares space with a pizza parlor on a college campus, that lean heavily on digital services.

• In 2012, Eastern was among the first wave of financial institutions in the country to offer mobile check deposit;

• In 2007, Eastern was among the first banks in the United States to offer mobile banking.