Researched by Natalia K. in MaltaUpdated 2026-10-25 · Evidence checked 2026-07-12

Wise at casinos: what works and what doesn’t

Wise (formerly TransferWise) pays in, but it won’t pay you out. We have deposited with a Wise card at NetBet and 888casino on our Malta-resident accounts (July 2026) — both went through as ordinary card payments, which is exactly the one lane Wise’s acceptable use policy leaves open: “lawful transactions using the Wise Multi-Currency Card” (policy checked 12 July 2026).

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Where our Wise card went through

Both cashiers took our Wise card as an ordinary card. NetBet comes first because we have also timed a payout there.

The rest is the catch. Games of chance with cash prizes sit on Wise’s restricted-activities list for everything that isn’t the card, no cashier we cover lists Wise as a named method, and none we’ve captured pays winnings back to the card — your cashout needs a different route.

What Wise’s own policy says

Three things in Wise’s acceptable use policy decide most of this page (accessed 12 July 2026):

1. Games of chance with cash prizes are a restricted activity — alongside lotteries and fantasy sports with cash prizes.
2. Gambling payments are banned outright for thirteen countries (the list runs from Canada to the UAE). Malta is not on it — so this is a restriction question for Malta residents, not a hard geographic ban.
3. One explicit carve-out: the restrictions “do not apply to lawful transactions using the Wise Multi-Currency Card.”

Read together: moving casino money through your Wise account — a SEPA transfer to an operator, or receiving a casino payout into your Wise IBAN — is the route most exposed to Wise’s restrictions, and an account review or freeze is the documented risk of breaching an acceptable use policy. The card at a licensed operator is the one lane Wise’s policy leaves open.

What actually happened at the cashiers

Deposits, first-hand: we paid in with a Wise card at NetBet and 888casino (Malta-resident accounts, July 2026). Both were accepted, and both ran as plain card deposits on the cashier’s Visa/Mastercard rail — there is no “Wise” button; the card is just a card. Two accepted deposits are a result, not a guarantee: card handling can change, so we date what we saw.

The named-method picture is unchanged:

• BitStarz and BC.Game — checked on real Malta-resident accounts: Wise is not offered at either cashier as a listed method.
• 888casino and NetBet — Wise does not appear in the cashier’s method list either; our deposits went through the ordinary card option.

Withdrawals back to the card are not offered by any cashier we have captured; winnings need a different route out — see the withdrawals section for what each operator actually pays to.

Where that leaves a Wise account

• Deposits: the Wise card works where card rails are verified — accepted at NetBet and 888casino on our accounts. Keep it to the card; that is the lane Wise’s policy permits.
• Cashouts: Revolut or the operator’s e-wallet/bank rails — no cashier we cover pays back to a Wise card. For large one-off cashouts, a plain SEPA transfer from your bank beats routing winnings into an account whose policy restricts gambling money.
• Crypto players: the crypto rails at the operators that display them, verified per review.

Wise ends up a one-way rail here: fine going in via the card, wrong coming out, and its account transfers stay off-limits for gambling under its own policy.

Wise vs Revolut

Neither is the whole field: the full payments coverage compares these two against every other rail our accounts have been shown, deposit and withdrawal sides listed separately.

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