Galileo
Expanding the financial frontier with leaders, builders and innovators.
Galileo is a leading financial technology company whose platform, open API technology and proven expertise enable fintechs, emerging and established brands to create differentiated financial solutions that expand the financial frontier. Galileo removes the complexity from payments and financial services innovation by providing flexible, open API building blocks and a secure, scalable, future-proof platform. Trusted by digital banking heavyweights, early stage innovators and enterprise clients alike, Galileo supports issuing physical and virtual payment cards, mobile push provisioning and more, across industries and geographies.
PARTNER DETAILS
Visa Ready Solution
Galileo Card Issuing
Invent, build, launch and scale your own unique financial services with Galileo’s proven platform that's secure and compliant from the ground up. Create a custom, multi-product solution including card issuing, payments, checking, savings, deposits, digital banking, lending and future products—all surfaced through industry-leading APIs.
Grow revenue faster with seamless physical and virtual card issuing. Our one-click push provisioning is equipped with tokenization technology that can automate the tedious process of provisioning a payment card to a mobile wallet. Give your customers the ability to simply tap a button to “push” the token associated with the card from your app to a Visa-branded digital card to major mobile wallets (Apple Pay, Samsung Pay and Google Pay) upon account creation.
Why Clients Choose Galileo?
Platform
● Accelerate time to value with programs that exceed expectations
● Developer friendly, RESTful APIs
● Access key ecosystem integrators
Products
● Leverage our APIs to reinvent B2C and B2B financial services
● Create frictionless, digital-first experiences of the future
● Quickly pilot, go live and drive profitable growth
People
● Find a partner who will think boldly and turn your vision into a reality
● Leverage our 20+ years of experience to innovate faster
● Select the team that helped launch the transformative power of fintech
| Version | 1.0 |
| Mobile Client App | Yes |
| Visa Credential and Card Support |
Prepaid, Debit, Consumer, Small Business, Commercial |
| In-Region Support | Yes |
| PCI Compliance |
Yes |
| Solution Deployment |
Saas, On-Prem |
| Tenancy Architecture |
Multi-tenant |
| Comprehensive APIs |
Yes |
| Sandbox Testing Environment |
CV Environment |
| Uptime Availability in Region(s) | 99.995% |
| Visa Token Service (VTS) Support | Yes |
| Visa Direct Support |
Yes |
| Visa QR Payments ("Scan to Pay" Support) |
No |
| Customizable Authorization Decisioning |
Yes |
| Reporting |
Custom, API-based |
| Authorization Flow |
Fully managed, Partially Managed |
| Incremental Authorization |
Yes |
| Instant Funding / $0-Balance Transactions |
Yes |
| Proprietary or Visa Access Control Server (ACS) |
Yes |
| Risk-based Authentication (3DS 2.0) |
Yes |
| Real-time Risk Scoring |
Yes |
| Custom Fraud Rules |
Yes |
| BIN Sponsor Connections |
Yes |
| Program Management / End-to-End |
Yes |
| Full-service Credit Program Management |
Yes, secured credit only |
| Multi-currency Partitioning |
No |
| Visa Value-added Services Integration |
No |
| Other Value-added Services Integrations |
eKYC |
Program
Visa Ready
Capability
Issuer Processor
Galileo Digital Issuance
Solution Information
| Category | Digital Issuance |
| Visa Credential and Card Support |
Credit: Consumer, Small Business, Commercial Prepaid: Consumer, Small Business, Commercial Debit: Consumer, Small Business |
| In-Region Support | US, LAC (Mexico) |
| PCI Compliance |
Yes |
Origination
| Consumer Application Hosting | Yes |
| eKYC/OFAC Verification | Yes |
| Real-time Application Capture | Yes |
Onboarding
| Account Funding Capabilities | Yes |
| Visa PAN Generation |
Yes |
| Visa PAN Personalization | Yes |
| Card System of Record | Yes |
| Account System of Record | Yes |
Enablement
| Digital/Virtual Card Activation | Yes |
| Mobile Application Client Hosting |
Yes |
| Digital Card Display | Yes |
| In-App Provisioning | Yes |
| Physical Card Activation | Yes |
Usage
| Transaction Processing Support | Yes |
| Card Lifecycle Management Capabilities | Yes |
| Account Management Capabilities | Yes |
Program
Visa Ready
Capability
Digital Issuance