Cogent a/k/a Cogent Merchant Services a/k/a Cogmer Payment Solutions is an anonymously operating high-risk payment processor. The website provides no information about the operating entity, the management, or the beneficial owners. Moreover, no social media accounts are connected to Cogent.

These missing pieces of crucial information indicate that Cogent is focused on the dark side of the online merchant universe. We thus include Cogent in our “Black Compliance” list.