2025 Digital Issuance Provider Scorecard

Galileo ranks as the Best in Class winner in Javelin Strategy & Research’s inaugural Digital Issuance Provider Scorecard. Galileo’s flexible, secure, scalable and fully integrated Digital First platform drives innovation across payments and financial services. That offering put Galileo ahead of Thales and FIS (which ranked as Overall Leaders) in Javelin’s ranking of eight providers. 

This scorecard is part of Javelin’s Debit Payments’ Instant Issuance and Digital Issuance Provider series. These two scorecards provide comprehensive assessments of instant issuance and digital issuance solutions from Alviere, B4B Payments, CPI Card Group, Entrust, FIS, Fiserv, Galileo, and Thales. For this scorecard, Javelin meticulously evaluated eight digital card issuance products across three categories using 25 criteria, backed by findings from our consumer survey research.

Key questions discussed in this report: 

• Why is digital issuance important for debit card issuers?
• What are the leading providers of digital issuance services?
• What are the key features for a best-in-class digital issuance product?

Companies Mentioned: 

Alviere, American Express, Apple Pay, B4B Payments, CPI Card Group, Discover, Entrust, FIS, Fiserv, Fitbit Pay, Galileo, Garmin Pay, Google Pay, Mastercard, PCI, PayPal, Paze, Samsung Pay, Thales, Venmo, Visa