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Notes on moving money across borders
Writing from the people who build and run the platform, on FX pricing, treasury operations, compliance and payment infrastructure.
- FX
The spread is the fee, and it should be printed like one
Most providers quote a rate that already contains their margin. We look at what that hides, how to work out what you actually paid, and why we print ours as a separate line.
Tobi Adeyemi · 7 min read
- Operations
What a supplier payment actually touches on its way out
A walkthrough of the systems a single cross-border payout passes through, from sanctions screening to local clearing, and where the delays really come from.
Ngozi Okafor · 11 min read
- Treasury
Closing the month when you hold six currencies
A practical process for reconciling multi-currency balances, handling revaluation, and getting to a close that does not depend on one person's spreadsheet.
Adaeze Nwosu · 9 min read
- Engineering
Idempotency is not optional when you are moving money
Why every write endpoint in our API takes an idempotency key, what happens when a payroll run is retried, and how we make duplicate payouts structurally impossible.
Daniel Mensah · 8 min read
- Compliance
What we check before a payout leaves
An honest account of the screening a payout goes through, why some payments are held, and how we keep review times measured in minutes rather than days.
Fatima Bello · 6 min read