An entity organising gambling games over the Internet that has a licence or a permit or has notified the organisation of such games shall be obliged to conduct payment transactions, within the meaning of the Act of 19 August 2011 on Payment Services, arising from those games only via the payment service providers referred defined in the above Act.
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Poland · Question 06 of 11
Poland Gambling — Payments and banking: Can we move player money?
Mixed · Probable · Expert approved · 3 post-review updates · Not reviewed · In expert review scope · Back to full Poland report →
Key section parameters
| Jurisdiction | Poland (PL) |
|---|---|
| Regulator | Recorded in register |
| Favourability | Mixed |
| Confidence | Probable |
| Review status | Expert approved · 3 post-review updates · Not reviewed · In expert review scope |
| Last collected | 25 Oct 2026 |
Summary answer
An entity organising gambling games over the Internet that has a licence or a permit or has notified the organisation of such games shall be obliged to conduct payment transactions, within the meaning of the Act of 19 August 2011 on Payment Services, arising from those games only via the payment ser…
Not reviewed Information added after the 2 Sep 2026 expert review — published for currency and labelled not reviewed.
Not reviewed Read update
BLIK (Polski Standard Płatności), Poland's mobile payment system, began blocking transactions linked to domains on the Ministry of Finance illegal-gambling register from 1 September 2026. The mechanism was approved by the President of Narodowy Bank Polski and operates by checking the destination domain associated with each transaction against the register at the point of payment. The register itself holds over 55,000 domains and is reported to be growing by approximately 700 entries per month. This payment-rail control is additive to, not a replacement for, the pre-existing ISP-level DNS blocking regime, giving Poland a dual-channel mechanism for interdicting payment flows to unlicensed and offshore gambling operators.
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BLIK, Poland's dominant instant-payment scheme, now blocks payment authorisation to domains listed on the Ministry of Finance illegal-gambling register, effective from 1 September 2026. The mechanism was approved by the President of the National Bank of Poland and applies to both domestic and foreign payment agents, meaning it is not limited to Polish-domiciled payment providers. This is a probable-confidence finding sourced from trade press rather than a directly retrieved primary Ministry of Finance or NBP document, but it represents a materially new enforcement layer in the payments landscape: enforcement against illegal gambling in Poland is no longer confined to ISP-level domain blocking but now extends into the payment-authorisation layer itself, closing off a channel that unlicensed operators had previously been able to use even where their domains were blocked at the network level.
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BLIK, Poland's dominant instant-payment scheme, began blocking payments directed at domains on the Ministry of Finance's Register of Illegal Gambling Websites from 1 September 2026, a confirmed and material new payment-layer enforcement mechanism corroborated by two independent trade-press reports (Gambling News and Global Gaming Insider) both citing the same start date. This represents a structural escalation in the state's enforcement toolkit, extending beyond the established ISP/domain-blocking model to intercept transactions at the point of payment rather than only at the point of access. The mechanism applies to transactions directed at blacklisted domains regardless of whether the underlying operator is domestic or foreign-directed. No new evidence this cycle addressed other payment-method permissions or withdrawal obligations beyond this blocking mechanism.