What we actually do in these countries
Most of these banks have no public API, no developer portal and no reason to build one for a foreign company — so everyone else routes around them through a chain of correspondents, each taking a cut and adding a day. Connecting them directly is fieldwork: people on the ground, a licensed local partner, and an integration built per institution.
The result is not only that money arrives from abroad. Once a bank is connected, everything else in the stack reaches it too: a shopkeeper in Kano can be verified for working capital against her own deposit history, a delivery rider in Dhaka can prove his income without a payslip, and a savings co-operative can be reconciled instead of trusted.
Market by market
Institution counts and bank names below are read live from the same public directory the send flow queries. If a name is listed here, it is testable in the sandbox today.
What it costs to send $200
Grey is the published market average for each corridor, from the World Bank’s quarterly Remittance Prices Worldwide. Mint is what it costs through a direct bank connection instead of a correspondent chain.
Compliance is the product
The send flow is three taps. Behind it sits a licensed partner in every market, live sanctions screening on both sides of the transfer, and a reconciliation ledger that closes the same day. Where a market is comprehensively sanctioned we refuse the transfer outright rather than quietly failing it later.