Correspondent banking is in retreat. Since 2011 the number of active relationships has fallen sharply, and the decline is steepest in exactly the corridors that need them most. Fewer banks carrying more volume concentrates systemic risk in a handful of survivors.
The result is a bottleneck. In the UK, safeguarding for the entire licensed payment sector rests on a handful of institutions — and none of them settle to Africa via SWIFT. A single bank exit can shut down an entire payment firm overnight.
When a safeguarding firm fails, customer money does not come back. Twelve UK e-money institutions went insolvent between 2018 and 2023; on average, customers recovered roughly 35p on the pound. There is no statutory trust protecting the funds.
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