Commercial banks are facing one of the biggest challenges of doing business in the area of retail money settlements. Due to changes in the payments market these institutions must redefine their place in the process of implementation of payment services on a national and international level. There is no doubt that on the one hand banks intentionally provide payment services based on activities performed by the third entities through outsourcing, on the other – they are facing increasing competition from non-bank payment institutions. The purpose of this article is to assess the activities of commercial banks in Poland in the light of changing market for payment services. It attempts to verify the hypothesis that the effectiveness of these ac...