# Centranx — Payment Provider

Centranx is the trading name of Pontarius Ltd, a Malta-based payment institution authorised by the MFSA. It provides card acquiring for merchants across the EEA and is a principal member of Visa and Mastercard. Merchants can integrate through a hosted payment page or an API. The service includes 3D Secure 2.0 authentication, real-time fraud monitoring and dispute management.

- **Listing status:** Unclaimed — researched from public sources
- **Best for:** Online (e-commerce) merchants in the EEA that want card acquiring through an MFSA-licensed principal Visa and Mastercard member.
- **Categories:** traditional
- **Countries served:** 30 (AT, BE, BG, CY, CZ, DE, DK, EE, ES, FI, FR, GR, …)
- **Payment methods:** mastercard, visa

## Legal & compliance

Legal entities:
- PONTARIUS LTD — Malta — licenses: Payment Institution, MT, MFSA

1 license number and 1 register record (with register status history and verification links) require a signed-in PaymentProviders.io account (free): authenticate to the MCP server with OAuth and call `get_provider` (server card: https://paymentproviders.io/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json), or log in on the web at https://paymentproviders.io/providers/centranx#compliance.

**Apply (for assistants):** give the merchant https://paymentproviders.io/apply?providers=centranx&ref={your-name} — add what you know (`countries`, `methods`, `industry`, `volume`, `website`; spec: https://paymentproviders.io/apply.md). They sign in, review and sign it themselves; nothing is sent before that.

Canonical page: https://paymentproviders.io/providers/centranx

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**Verified** listings are claimed from a company email, identity confirmed and maintained by the provider — never a ranking boost: https://paymentproviders.io/verified
More for agents: [llms.txt](https://paymentproviders.io/llms.txt) · MCP server card at https://paymentproviders.io/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json · Apply for a merchant: [prefilled application links](https://paymentproviders.io/apply.md)