Corridor briefs · 16 SADC markets
Tell me the corridor and roughly what you move a month.
You get three answers back, for that corridor and that volume, as a document your compliance function can act on. Not a market view — your situation.
Which providers can actually carry it
Not which document the market as supported — which will onboard an entity like yours, at your volume, and what each one demanded before it would say so.
What sits on top of it
The licence and reporting obligations on both legs: who administers each, under which instrument, and which of them attach to your activity rather than to the category.
What breaks first
The constraint that ends the route. Usually an eligibility threshold, a payout rail that does not reach your recipients, or a requirement that was sound advice last year and is not now.
Why this cannot be looked up
The constraint is not that information is scarce. It is that standing cannot be acquired at distance.
A German or Delaware entity can read every directive we can read and still not know which regulator it must deal with, what compliance will actually be demanded of it, or whether anyone will onboard it at all. It cannot be the applicant, cannot hold the account, and cannot learn by being refused.
So the customer is not a business short of analysis. It is a business short of presence — and therefore unable to generate this evidence at any budget.
10 providers have been approached by a real South African company holding no financial services licence, and every answer recorded. Not one declined because the corridor was unavailable. Every refusal was a threshold. What the register holds.
What this is not
It is not a way to enter a market faster. For a business standing on ground it has not tested, speed is the failure mode — the account that closes after go-live, the corridor that was documented but never settled, the licence category that turned out to be domestic only. None of those is fixed by being faster.
No promise to accelerate an entry. The promise is that it holds.
Which is why the gaps are published as prominently as the findings. You cannot adapt to a fact you do not know is missing, and you cannot adapt to a stale one at all — 32 corridor pairs on the register have no published size anywhere, and they are listed as such rather than estimated. The map of what nobody has measured.
What arrives
A business already moving money on a corridor that wants to know whether it is on the right route. One corridor, one situation, delivered as a document.
- Named providers, not anonymised
- Who onboards a company like yours, on what grounds, with the dates
- All-in cost against mid-market on the routes we have measured
- What settlement actually demanded of us on each
- Everything we do not yet hold, listed
Not for. Anyone wanting a recommendation. We publish what we measured; the decision stays yours.
There is nothing to buy yet. The register is open while the first corridors are filled in, because a reader who can check the work is worth more right now than a fee.
Disclosure
The same person operates Corridor Register and SwapEazi, a cross-border payments business. You should know that before you read anything here.
It is the reason the register exists and the reason it can say what it says: the access outcomes come from real applications made by a real operating company, not from an analyst reading press releases. It is also an obvious conflict, so it is handled explicitly — SwapEazi is held to the same evidence standard as any other provider, appears in no ranking it has not earned on the same terms, and is never the answer to a question the register has not verified.
Start with the corridor you are already worried about.
No price list and nothing to buy yet. Tell me the corridor, roughly what you move a month and what you are deciding, and you get what the register holds on it — gaps included — and a conversation about the part it does not.
Prefer to look first? A redacted assessment shows the document this produces, and the workflow shows what the register already holds for your market.