Banque d'Algérie maintains tight foreign-exchange and capital controls. Law 18-05 exempts only sub-threshold cross-border e-commerce from FX formalities, and gambling is expressly excluded from permitted e-commerce, so there is no lawful gambling payment channel. Cryptocurrency was criminalised by Law 25-10 in July 2025, eliminating that workaround. Algeria's FATF grey-list status (October 2024, MENAFATF member) requires enhanced due diligence on all Algeria-connected flows.
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Algeria · Question 06 of 11
Payments and banking: Can we move player money?
Unfavourable · Confirmed · AI-generated · Back to full Algeria report →
Key section parameters
| Jurisdiction | Algeria (DZ) |
|---|---|
| Regulator | Recorded in register |
| Favourability | Unfavourable |
| Confidence | Confirmed |
| Review status | AI-generated |
| Last collected | 18 Oct 2026 |
Summary answer
Banque d'Algérie maintains tight foreign-exchange and capital controls. Law 18-05 exempts only sub-threshold cross-border e-commerce from FX formalities, and gambling is expressly excluded from permitted e-commerce, so there is no lawful gambling payment channel. Cryptocurrency was criminalised by L…