Bitcoin Exchange

Enable your bank's customers to purchase and sell Bitcoin within the familiar and secure relationship of your bank.

Bitcoin brokerage architecture

The Bitcoin Exchange Opportunity

Your customers want to buy Bitcoin from their trusted bank. Galoy helps you capture this demand with compliant infrastructure that turns customer demand into institutional revenue.

Customer Demand

A growing number of your customers want to buy BTC through their existing bank relationship.

Riskless Principal Model

Act as an intermediary without taking on market risk exposure. Supports the riskless principal model described in OCC Interpretive Letter 1188.

Customer Assets Held With Your Custodian

Customer Bitcoin is stored with your qualified custodian of choice. Your institution maintains full control over customer asset safekeeping.

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Key Capabilities

Everything your institution needs to offer Bitcoin exchange services

Riskless Principal Execution

Execute customer buy/sell orders as a riskless principal. Your institution facilitates the trade without taking on market exposure.

Real-Time Pricing

Transparent, real-time Bitcoin pricing with configurable spread management. Your institution controls the fee structure.

Custody Integration

Purchased Bitcoin settles directly to your institution's qualified custodian. Full control over customer asset safekeeping.

Compliance Reporting

Built-in transaction logging, audit trails, and reporting hooks for regulatory examination requirements.

Customer Onboarding

Leverage your existing KYC/AML processes. Customers use their existing bank accounts to fund Bitcoin purchases.

Revenue Generation

New fee revenue stream from Bitcoin transactions. Configurable pricing with full visibility into margins.

How Bitcoin Exchange Works

1

Customer Places Order

Customer initiates a buy or sell order through your banking interface.

2

Riskless Execution

Galoy executes the trade as a riskless principal, matching the customer order with market liquidity.

3

Settlement

Bitcoin settles to the customer's account at your qualified custodian. Fiat settles through your existing rails.

4

Reporting

Full audit trail generated. Transaction data flows to your compliance and reporting systems.

Works With Your Existing Core

Galoy deploys as a sidecar alongside your existing banking core, whether you run Jack Henry, FIS, Fiserv, or another platform. No core replacement required.

Our API-first architecture integrates through your core's existing fintech integration pathways, feeding transaction data back to your general ledger and compliance systems automatically.

Galoy Exchange Engine
Sidecar API Integration
Your Banking Core
Jack Henry · FIS · Fiserv · Other

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