BLIK has 0.5 mln clients

Polish mobile payments system, BLIK, has garnered 500,000 customers within a month since its roll-out. The system is operated by the Polish Payments System (PSP), a joint venture of six Polish lenders: Alior Bank, Bank Millennium, BZ WBK, ING BSK, mBank and PKO BP. One more bank is set to join the consortium in Q2 2015. PSP intends to reach 1 million users within the first three months of the system's operation. It also plans to have 150,000 locations thanks to agreements signed with on-line payment services providers including eService, First Data Polska, PayTel, ITCARD, Dotpay, Przelewy 24, among others. Currently, there are 35,000 locations where you can pay using BLIK and 12,000 e-stores which accept the system.