PKO's digital project wins prestigious award

The transformation of the mobile application IKO into the country-wide mobile payment standard BLIK has been recognized as the best innovation in payments at the prestigious competition “Distribution&Marketing Innovation in Retail Financial Services”. The event is organized by consultancy Accenture and Efma, an organization which brings together more than 3,300 financial companies from over 130 countries. The competition rewards the best and most innovative projects in retail financial services and marketing in the world. As many as 500 projects were submitted to the contest by 200 banks from 59 countries. "From IKO to Blik” won the Best Innovation in Payments category, beating 52 competitors. "We are proud that an innovation created by PKO Bank Polski in cooperation with leading banks in Poland, has become the countrywide mobile payments standard and was recognized today by specialists from all over the world. Banks, which are developing the payments standard, give a good example of cooperation and understanding for the benefit of all customers in Poland. The growing number of BLIK users confirms that customers also appreciate the application. We believed from the beginning that this solution would succeed," said Zbigniew Jagiełło, President of PKO Bank Polski.