I watched a tech founder sit in a glass-walled office in Seoul last year, staring at a wire transfer confirmation on his laptop with a look of pure nausea. He had just sold his stake in a local startup and was trying to move his liquid capital back to a US-based brokerage account. He’d looked at the mid-market rate on Google, done some quick mental math, and expected a certain figure to land in his Chase account. When the funds finally cleared three days later, he was short by nearly $48,000. He hadn't accounted for the tiered spread of a commercial bank, the intermediary
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