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 demands of professionals

Technology

A proprietary, modular technology environment, ensuring agility and security

Compliance

European certifications that guarantee cost and value chain control

Expertise

A detailed understanding of the challenges of a complex sector with multiple dimensions

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 your IT environments.

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

Designed as an “API-first” approach and based on proven open source standards, our infrastructure is fully managed internally: development, approval, operation, security, etc.

Each building block is managed by our teams, guaranteeing strong responsiveness, constant scalability and unfailing resilience.

A fully mastered
regulatory base

To ensure clearing and exchange of flows on a European and international scale, the payment institution CentralPay is committed to obtaining 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 particular regarding 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 connected to EBA CLEARING, CentralPay integrates the European SEPA settlement schemes in order to issue and receive 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 accepted messaging system globally, CentralPay is able to exchange international financial flows with most participating banks and financial institutions.
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CentralPay is accredited with major card networks to optimize payment journeys and conversions for all its users.
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50 experts
at your disposal

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

Compliance, electronic banking, security, integration… each area is managed by dedicated specialists, capable of responding precisely to the challenges faced by professionals.

Attentive to the rapid developments in the B2B, B2C and C2C payments sector, our teams mobilize 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

What if we
worked together ?

Solution providers and platforms

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

Question boxes

The payment institution CentralPay

Yes. CentralPay is approved as an Electronic Money Institution by the ACPR (CIB 17138), which allows it to operate throughout the European Economic Area (EEA).

This approval guarantees that CentralPay complies with prudential standards for combating money laundering, terrorist financing, fund protection and data security.

The approval is public and can be consulted on the official register of the Banque de France.

No. The CentralPay account is a payment account. It allows you to collect, temporarily store, and transfer funds without offering the traditional services of a bank account (credit, overdraft, investment, etc.).

Unlike a bank, CentralPay provides a modular technological infrastructure, which can be integrated into different tools (ERP, CMS, TMS, etc.), with advanced payment services: granular traceability, flow automation, real-time reporting, multi-stakeholder management, etc.

Each operation is orchestrated within a strict regulatory framework, under the supervision of the ACPR.

CentralPay guarantees a 99.9% SLA with an RPO (maximum data loss) of 60 seconds and an RTO (recovery time) of 15 minutes.

The infrastructure is based on two fully redundant French data centers: a Tier III design data center, ISO 27001 and PCI DSS Level 1 standards, triple telecom induction, storage bays and an active/active environment between the two sites, on-site technical teams, etc.

CentralPay is an Electronic Money Institution authorized by the Banque de France through the French Prudential Supervision and Resolution Authority (CIB 17138).

We apply the strictest security standards:

  • Strong Customer Authentication (SCA, 3DS 2.0)
  • PCI DSS Certification for card processing
  • Direct connection to EBA Clearing for SEPA schemes


Our entire infrastructure is regularly audited and operates under a security-by-design model, ensuring the protection of data and transactions at every stage of the user journey.

Learn more about our security protocols >

CentralPay, as an authorized payment institution, cannot invest or lend funds deposited by customers.

All funds are held in protective accounts opened with authorized partner institutions. In the event of a bank run, this mechanism ensures that users can recover their funds.