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