Reporting from inside the corridors.
CBN's May circular tightened BDC operations and pushed the parallel premium briefly below 3% — but FX reserves tell a different story.
Read →Three days at a Dakar branch watching the eCFA pilot rollout — KYC bottlenecks, agent commissions, and what the regulators are not announcing.
WhatsApp groups now clear Morocco's informal MAD–EUR market faster than licensed bureaux. We sat with three operators.
A week of test transfers across five operators on the UK–Nigeria corridor. Wise is winning on speed; the FX spread story is more nuanced.