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Poland's BLIK payment system plans to expand into CEE and Austria, PKO BP CEO says
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Posted on June 4, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 23, 2026
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Published by Global Banking & Finance Review®
Posted on June 4, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 23, 2026
BLIK, Poland's top mobile payment system, plans to expand into CEE and Austria, aiming to double its transaction volume by collaborating with regional banks.
SOPOT, Poland (Reuters) -Polish mobile payment system BLIK plans to expand into Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), including Austria, Poland's biggest lender PKO BP CEO Szymon Midera said on Wednesday.
The expansion will involve cooperating with leading regional banks in the area to replicate BLIK's domestic success, he told the annual European Financial Congress.
"Only in this way can we enable the further development of BLIK abroad and ensure, within a few years, a doubling of the volume that BLIK has generated in the Polish market," Midera said.
BLIK is Poland's most popular mobile payment system with over 16 million users and over 2.4 billion transactions in Poland as of 2024. It is operated by Polski Standard Platnosci (PSP) and jointly owned by several major Polish banks, including PKO BP.
(Reporting by Rafal W. Nowak and Marta Maciag, editing by Ed Osmond)
BLIK plans to expand into Central and Eastern Europe, including Austria, by cooperating with leading regional banks.
Midera believes that cooperation with regional banks is essential for BLIK's development abroad and aims to double the transaction volume generated in Poland.
BLIK is Poland's most popular mobile payment system, boasting over 16 million users and over 2.4 billion transactions as of 2024.
BLIK is operated by Polski Standard Platnosci (PSP), which is jointly owned by several banks in Poland.
Szymon Midera spoke about BLIK's expansion plans at the annual European Financial Congress.
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