National Bank of Georgia (NBG): register, licences and requirements

How to check a firm on the NBG register

Each register is browsed on the relevant NBG page by institution name; the banks and PSP pages show a live filterable/searchable table (the PSP one can be filtered by status), while the VASP and non-bank-institution registers are dated downloadable Excel files rather than a search box. An active entry shows the entity's name, legal form, identification code, and registration/licence date; the PSP table also shows the director's name.⁸

• Licensed commercial banks³
• Registered payment service providers, filterable by status (Registered/Canceled/Liquidation)⁸
• Virtual asset service provider (VASP) register, downloadable as a dated Excel file⁹
• Non-bank institution registers: microfinance organisations, loan-issuing entities, currency exchange units, credit unions¹⁰

At a glance

What NBG supervises

The National Bank of Georgia is Georgia's independent central bank. It sets monetary policy and price-stability targets, issues the lari, and acts as integrated supervisor over banks, microfinance and other non-bank credit institutions, payment service providers, virtual-asset service providers, and capital-markets participants.²

• Commercial banks and micro-banks¹¹
• Microfinance organisations, loan-issuing entities, and currency exchange bureaus¹¹
• Payment service providers and payment/card system operators¹¹
• Virtual asset service providers (VASPs), including stablecoin issuance by VASPs⁹
• Capital markets: brokerage companies, asset managers, investment funds, securities issuers and registrars, the Georgian Securities Exchange and Central Securities Depository¹¹
• Credit information bureaus¹¹

Licences NBG issues

• Bank · Georgia

  Commercial bank licence

• PI · Georgia

  Registration as a Payment Service Provider (PSP) with the National Bank of Georgia

Lesser-known services for applicants

Fee schedule: No single consolidated public fee schedule was located; the PSP registration fee is documented by a law-firm secondary source (see fees below), and other statutory fees appear scattered across individual NBG rules that were not all locatable in this session.⁶

Compare with other regulators: pre-application meetings · sandboxes and innovation hubs.

Statistics

• 17 commercial banks currently licensed in Georgia (register, 2026-09-24)³

Fees and timelines

Changing the owner of a licensed firm

Prior notification with an objection period. For commercial banks, acquiring or crossing 10%, 20%, 30% or 50% of capital or voting shares, or otherwise gaining significant influence, requires notifying the National Bank; anyone holding more than 10% is a significant shareholder subject to the NBG's fit-and-proper assessment (Law on Commercial Bank Activities, Art. 81 and Art. 1(z5)). For payment service providers, changes of significant shareholders and beneficial owners must be notified to the NBG under its PSP registration order (Order No. 77/04 of 1 May 2023).⁷

Buying a company that already holds one of these licences is often faster than applying. See ready-made licensed companies · emoney payments.

Laws NBG applies

• Law of Georgia on Payment System and Payment Services: Law of Georgia No 6304-Is of 25 May 2012

Contacts and public register

Address: 1 Zviad Gamsakhurdia Embankment, Tbilisi 0108, Georgia¹
Website: nbg.gov.ge²

Check whether a firm is licensed: official register³ · official register⁸ · official register⁹ · official register¹⁰.