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Piotr Puchalski to become the new CEO of Polish Payment Standard
The Supervisory Board of Polish Payment Standard has appointed Piotr Puchalski as President of the company’s Management Board. He will assume the position effective 11 January 2027. The new CEO has more than 20 years of experience in the financial and payments sectors, gained, among others, at BNP Paribas, mBank and on the Supervisory Board of Polski Standard Płatności (BLIK). Throughout his career, he has been responsible for areas including the development of mobile payments and e-commerce, as well as growing customer portfolios and revenues and achieving high NPS scores.
First pilot BLIK transaction completed independently by an AI agent
For the first time, an AI agent independently completed a purchase and paid for it using BLIK, without the user’s involvement at the moment of the transaction. As part of the pilot project, the agent monitored the availability of a product specified by the user during a conversation with an AI assistant in the Your KAYA online store. When the selected product variant – a “light hand cream with coconut and almond fragrance” – became available again, the agent made the purchase. The PLN 19.99 transaction was carried out based on a prior instruction given to the agent, confirmed by entering a six-digit BLIK code and approving it in the user’s banking app. Juo was responsible for enabling the AI agent chat in store, while the payment was processed by PayU.
BLIK delivers a strong first half of 2026 – 1.6 billion transactions and over 2 million more active users year-on-year
From January to June 2026, BLIK users completed a total of 1.6 billion transactions worth nearly a quarter of a trillion zlotys. The second quarter alone saw more than 800 million transactions, confirming sustained high levels of activity within the system. As the scale grows, so does the scope of its use – at the end of June this year, BLIK had 21.6 million active users, with 6 out of 10 using at least two functions. During the period under review, individual areas of BLIK developed at a similar pace, while recurring payments saw increasingly strong interest among the services offered.
First-of-its-kind transaction in Poland: PKO Bank Polski completes a contactless BLIK payment on iPhone
PKO Bank Polski has become the first bank in Poland to successfully complete a contactless BLIK payment on an iPhone using the PKO Junior app. The successful transaction marks the next milestone in the rollout of contactless BLIK payments for Apple device users. However, the service is still under development and is not expected to become commercially available for at least several months.
Use OpenAI and Pay with BLIK. BLIK Recurring Payments Now Available for ChatGPT Users
OpenAI users can now pay for service subscriptions, including ChatGPT Plus access, using BLIK Recurring Payments. The solution has been made available through cooperation with Stripe, the programmable financial services company that powers payments for millions of businesses worldwide. This marks another milestone in the development of the BLIK Recurring Payments ecosystem and further strengthens the partnership between BLIK and Stripe.
Polish users will pay with BLIK for accommodation in hotels of the Tatry Mountain Resorts group
Polish tourists can now pay with BLIK for accommodation in the largest resorts in the Slovak Tatras. This is the first result of the announced expansion of the system within the euro area. Thanks to BLIK SK, the company responsible for developing the system on the Slovak market, mobile payments are available in the reservation system of the group Tatry Mountain Resorts (TMR), which manages, among others, hotels in Slovakia, in the Czech Republic and Austria. This is the first implementation of this kind in Slovak e-commerce.
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