No reliable way to trace a wire transfer lost between banks
When a wire transfer fails to arrive at its destination account, senders and receivers have no shared system to trace funds across the banking network. Each bank can only see its own side of the transaction, leaving customers to manually chase a Federal Reserve reference number while funds stay missing for months.
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