The price of sending money home

Lines of inquiry

1. 01

   How headline transfer fees and currency spreads divide the true cost of sending money home.

2. 02

   What the retreat of correspondent banking has done to smaller currency corridors.

3. 03

   Why fixed compliance cost per transaction penalises small, frequent transfers.

4. 04

   Where mobile money has closed the last mile and where the cross-border leg remains untouched.

5. 05

   How far corridor pricing responds to regulation rather than to market structure alone.

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Related corridors

• Sending and investing between the United Kingdom and Ghana
• Sending and investing between the United Kingdom and Nigeria
• Sending and investing between the United Kingdom and Kenya
• Sending and investing between the United States and Nigeria

Related glossary terms

• Remittance corridor
• FX spread
• Credit portability
• Repatriation of profits
• Currency convertibility
• Capital controls
• Thin-file borrower
• Cross-border credit reporting

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