Licensing
Georgia licenses or registers gambling, payments, virtual assets, microfinance, lending, banking, brokerage and insurance through three regulators. We tell you which regime your product falls under, what the regulator will ask for, and what it costs, in writing, before any fee is paid.
Revenue Service of Georgia (permits) and the technical body for certification
Online casino, live casino, slots, betting and game supply under Georgia's gambling law; one permit, one brand, one domain, five years.
Operators and B2B game suppliers who want a supervised home with a real regulator behind the permit.
See the five-stage routeNational Bank of Georgia
Registration to issue payment accounts, execute transfers, acquire card payments, issue e-money and operate payment systems for clients in Georgia and abroad.
Fintechs, acquirers, e-money issuers and platforms moving client money.
Scoped on request
Registration for exchange, transfer, custody and administration of virtual assets, with the AML programme and the fit-and-proper file the regulator reviews.
Crypto exchanges, custodians, OTC desks and wallet providers.
Scoped on request
Registration for cash foreign exchange at physical points of sale, with the premises, equipment and reporting the regulator inspects.
Retail operators opening exchange points in Georgia.
Scoped on request
National Bank of Georgia
Registration to lend, take certain deposits from members and offer related services under the microfinance law, with capital, governance and reporting requirements.
Consumer and SME lenders scaling beyond a single loan book.
Scoped on request
Registration for entities lending to more than twenty borrowers, the lighter regime below a microfinance organisation, with consumer-protection and disclosure rules.
Lenders, buy-now-pay-later and instalment providers, corporate lending vehicles.
Scoped on request
A full banking licence, or a brokerage and securities licence for dealing, custody and investment services; the heaviest files, with capital, ownership and governance reviewed in depth.
Groups establishing a licensed bank, a broker-dealer or an investment firm in Georgia.
Scoped on request
Insurance State Supervision Service of Georgia
Licensing of life and non-life insurers and reinsurers, and registration of brokers and agents, with solvency, governance and product rules.
Insurance groups entering Georgia and intermediaries distributing their products.
Scoped on request
Scoped on request: the written proposal states the regime, the file, the timeline and the fees in force.
A short questionnaire and a call. We map your product to the regime, name the regulator and the legal basis, and list what the file needs.
The route, a realistic timeline, and the fee split between government, technical and professional charges. Nothing is paid before you have it.
Company, bank, ownership and fit-and-proper evidence, policies and the technical description, filed and defended before the regulator until the decision.
Reporting calendar, AML programme, changes of ownership and product notified on time, on a retainer or handed to your team.
It authorises the activity under Georgian law and gives you a supervised home. It does not make you lawful in a client's country: market access is decided where the client is, for every licence in the world. We say this before you build anything.
Describe the product in a few lines. We come back within two business days with the category, the regulator and the route, or with the reasons Georgia is the wrong fit.
Book a scoping call