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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.

The evidence, in five lines

Sources · BIS CPMI 2025 · FSB 2018 · FCA PS25/12 · LexisNexis 2023
The exit is permanent. Banks are not returning to MSB corridors — the compliance cost exceeds the revenue. Every year the available correspondents shrink and the concentration risk in the survivors grows.

The paradox: regulation creates a dependency it cannot enforce.

Sources · FCA PS25/12 · CASS 15 (May 2026) · FCA insolvency data 2018–2023
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Sources · ECB Decision 2025 · Riksbanken Payments Report 2025 · Nationalbanken 2025 · Bank of Lithuania
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Think of it as the difference between renting server space and owning the data centre. Most providers rent banking access and pass it through. We hold the licence, the scheme membership and the central-bank accounts directly.
What we are not

We are wholesale B2B infrastructure. We do not offer retail accounts, consumer apps, or direct-to-customer products. We do not compete with our partners. Your customers are yours — we provide the regulated rails underneath.

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+105% net-margin improvement on the same transaction. The customer pays the same price; your firm keeps more than twice as much.
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