A payment institution
licensed and independent

Our mission

Simplify the management
of your customer payments

CentralPay combines technological power, regulatory compliance and business expertise to meet the needs of professionals

Technology

A proprietary, modular technology environment, ensuring agility and security

Compliance

European certifications that guarantee cost and value chain control

Expertise

In-depth knowledge of the challenges facing a complex, multi-faceted sector

An agile and in-house
technology infrastructure

Aware that the payment partner determines the success and scalability of your projects, the CentralPay platform has been designed to fully adapt to your objectives and IT environments.

Its modular architecture, built around urbanized micro-services, enables seamless integration into your application ecosystem, whatever your level of complexity.

An “API-first” and based on proven open source standards, our infrastructure is fully managed in-house: development, certification, operation, security…

Each brick is managed by our own teams, guaranteeing a high level of responsiveness, constant scalability and resilience.

A fully mastered
regulatory base

To ensure the clearing and exchange of flows on a European and international scale, the CentralPay payment institution is committed to obtaining the following approvals

Payment Services Directive 2 (PDS2)
Since 2019, CentralPay has been an Établissement de Monnaie Électronique approved by the Banque de France through its Autorité de Contrôle Prudentiel et de Résolution (CIB 17138).
CentralPay complies with the 2nd Payment Services Directive, which imposes requirements in terms of strong authentication and data protection.
Illustration de la régulation européenne auquel est soumis l'établissement de paiement CentralPay
As a member of the European Payment Council and its connection to EBA CLEARING, CentralPay integrates the European schemes of the SEPA regulations to issue and receive credit transfers and direct debits from its own IBANs and virtual IBANs.
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Each year, CentralPay obtains the highest possible certification for bank data security and fraud prevention: PCI DSS level 1.
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Connected to the SWIFT network, the most widely accepted messaging system in the world, CentralPay is able to exchange international financial flows with most participating banks and financial institutions.
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CentralPay is accredited by the major card networks, to optimise the payment paths and conversion of all its users.
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50 experts
at your disposal

CentralPay favours controlled growth to guarantee its customers local support, provided by expert and stable teams.

Compliance, electronic payments, security, integration… each area is managed by dedicated specialists who are able to respond precisely to the challenges faced by professionals.

Attentive to the rapid developments in the B2B, B2C and C2C payments sector, our teams are mobilized with rigor and commitment to move your projects forward, without compromising on quality or long-term relationships.

More than 20 years
serving companies

From the outset, CentralPay has supported professionals with complex payment flows by developing robust, tailor-made payment solutions.

2002

Creation of the CentralPay payment institution, in Tours

2007

The platform is certified PCI-DSS Level 1

2015-2017

Complete platform overhaul

2019

CentralPay became a Payment and Electronic Money Institution

2022

CentralPay turns 20!

2023

SEPA STEP2 membership

2023

SWIFT Member

Stable and independent
governance

Under the leadership of its founding directors, CentralPay is an independent payment institution,
built on its own capital and expertise in the field

Guillaume Ponsard
Founder & Chairman
Anthony Mabilleau
General Director
Alina Alistarh
Risk Management Director
Natacha Pedroso
Chief Operating Officer
Victor Derrier
Development Director
Valérie Leperlier-Roy
Legal and Compliance Director
établissement de paiement : photo de Guillaume Ponsard, fondateur et CEO de CentralPay
Guillaume Ponsard
Founder & Chairman
établissement de paiement : photo de Anthony Mabilleau, Directeur général et Directeur technique de CentralPay
Anthony Mabilleau
General Director
établissement de paiement : photo de Alina Alistarh, Directrice des risques de CentralPay
Alina Alistarh
Risk Management Director
établissement de paiement : photo de Natacha Pedroso, Directrice des Opérations
Natacha Pedroso
Chief Operating Officer
établissement de paiement : photo de Victo Derrier, Directeur du développemement commercial et marketing
Victor Derrier
Development Director
établissement de paiement : photo de Valérie Leperlier-Roy, Directrice juridique et conformité
Valérie Leperlier-Roy
Legal and Compliance Director

What if we
worked together ?

Solution providers and platforms

Integrate and offer regulated payment services to your users, backed by the expertise of a French payment institution on a European scale.

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Our payment institution

The execution of an online payment may require the intervention of several third parties:

  • A payment gateway is the intermediary service responsible for collecting, processing, and transmitting payment data between the customer and the acquiring bank. This technical device is a bridge guaranteeing the transmission and security of transaction information.
  • A Payment Service Provider (PSP) is a player regulated by the Banque de France, which combines the functions of payment gateway and payment processor.

CentralPay operates its services from a French datacenter. The equipment and services operated on these two sites are fully redundant: Tier III datacenter design, ISO 27001 & PCI DSS Level 1 standards, triple induction Telecom, storage bays and Active/Active environment between the two sites, on-site technical teams...

This highly secure environment enables CentralPay to deliver a contractual SLA of 99.9% with an RPO (maximum data loss) of maximum 60 seconds and an RTO (recovery time) of maximum 15 min.

Unlike banks, payment institutions are not authorized to invest their customers' funds.

In addition, as an authorized E-money and Payment Institution, CentralPay is legally obliged to keep all account holders' funds in a protective account, guaranteeing their security. In the event of a banking panic, users would get their money back almost instantly.

It's a design and development approach centered on the creation of a robust, consistent and well-documented Application Programming Interface (API), which ensures communication with other different applications and services.

Rather than building an infrastructure with a specific user interface, the First CentralPay API promotes reusability, scalability and flexibility, enabling the software to evolve smoothly over time and be easily integrated by users.