title: Algeria — Payments and banking: Can we move player money? | advennt.io canonical: https://advennt.io/jurisdictions/algeria/payments/ [Jurisdictions](https://advennt.io/jurisdictions/) [Algeria](https://advennt.io/jurisdictions/algeria/) Payments and banking Algeria · Question 06 of 11 # Payments and banking: Can we move player money? Unfavourable · Confirmed · AI-generated · [Back to full Algeria report →](https://advennt.io/jurisdictions/algeria/) 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… ## Full section analysis 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.