Somone is promoting their business vehemently here, anyway, it's not of interest.
They send you a form(s) to fill out which they then present to a German bank. They German bank either approves or denies your request for your own Merchant Account. Should you get approved, securionpay simple provides the frontend and backend gateways to the bank. The bank either accepts or declines transactions and any accepted transactions are reconciled and paid into a bank account of your choosing (likely your business bank account in your country).
That's good, so far all payment gateway providers work and it's business standard for MAP's. You say a German bank, good knowledge, there is NO bank in Germany that will accept any high risk transactions that is related to, Pharmacy, Tobacco, Gambling or other similar business, nor will they touch anything that could or could not require a license because of financial service activity. Everything you put through the banks there need to be 100% clean!
High Risk business can be among other "legit business" be travel business and that's what they may advertise with high risk business. Anyway, small payment processors that just got started out are agressive in their marketing, they tend to take business on that is in the gray area of business just because they need volume. I have seen the industry develop since 2001 and know exactly how this works, and if you look back in history of this industry very bad things has happend just when everything looked great and awesome for one payment processor it went down!
It's all your money you can do exactly what you want I don't care, I just hate people claim something they don't are and see comments here from people that obvious don't know how this works.
Do you know what happen if the Acquiring bank that has approved a MID find out that they got fooled? Who do you think they share the penalty with that get issued by Visa and MC , the merchant / MID, the Payment Gateway provider, both ?
What do you think happen if a payment gateway provider starts sending several merchants to an Acquiring bank for approval and it all went out to be high risk, fraud or not allowed business?
I know the answers, do you?
At no point does securionpay touch your funds. Also, to my knowledge no bank "mix transactions" and as far as I am aware they are not allowed to do this anyway. The only people allowed to "mix transactions" are IPSPs (Internet Payment Service Providers) - like ccbill, epoch, and even Paypal. Basically IPSP aggregate all transactions under their own merchant account and collect and disburse funds to clients.
I totally agree with you and if you keep things clean the MID that is catched in fraud or may be in conflict with the Acquriing banks or VISA/MC terms will be terminated and penalty issued, who do you think the penalty will be shared with once they start to issue one for each chargeback is coming? Also the bank may issue one MID / descriptor but the payment gateway can share this with several merchants, all has been seen before.
The banks will never mix transactions, that's what the MAP's do.
As I said before, use them if you like their fancy website and if you get turned on of their business. I will defiantly wait at least 1 or 2 years more before I even consider using them.
I could point you to various forum posts and blog posts on other websites, I have made in the past where I said the exact same words, 5 out 8 cases I was right ! I hope I'm wrong here and you all get happy long term
But if they use a German bank I don't know the point of using them, there are great Payment processors like WireCard already that deliver high professional payment processing, so there is Ogone a world leader.. I thought when it say Swiss payment processor they were using some like Aduno in Switzerland..
Good luck to you guys.