From January to March 2021, Polish mobile payment system BLIK users performed over 153m transactions worth PLN 20b. At the end of the first quarter, as many as 7.6m people were actively using it.
In the first quarter of this year, users made 153 million BLIK transactions – this is almost twice as many as in the same period of 2020. The total value of transactions also doubled in comparison with the first three months of last year and amounted to PLN 20 billion. The number of active BLIK users (those who make at least one transaction per month) increased to 7.6 million people – a 55% year-on-year increase. This is also 600,000 more people than at the end of the fourth quarter of 2020. More than 74% of transactions in the first quarter of this year were made online; there were almost 114 million of them, of which more than 4 million were transactions made in global e-commerce, settled by international payment operators. The value of online transactions was almost PLN 13 billion. At the end of 2020, BLIK overtook payment cards in terms of the number of transactions made in global e-commerce (Polish and foreign) for the first time.
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