Introducing brokers, rebate programmes, prop-firm affiliates and regional partners paid per lot, per spread or per funded account. High frequency, small tickets, and counterparties in exactly the jurisdictions your banking partners treat as questions.
Per-lot economics produce frequent obligations of a few hundred units to partners in twenty countries. A USD 15–40 wire fee plus an embedded spread against a USD 400 rebate isn't friction — it's a double-digit haircut on the incentive you designed.
Outbound payments from a brokerage entity to individual introducers across many jurisdictions attract questions independently of how clean your licensing is — and the introducer's own bank has its own opinion about inbound trading-related income.
Tiered volumes, spread-based bases, sub-IB overrides and clawbacks are calculated in one place and paid from another. When an IB disputes their number, you're reconstructing the link between a statement and a bank reference by hand.
Settlement is internal to the programme rather than a series of individual cross-border transfers, so your cost per counterparty doesn't scale with how often you pay them. Weekly rebates become affordable.
Every credit references the agreement and the reporting period that produced it. An IB dispute is answered from one continuous record rather than assembled from three systems.
Identity verification — beneficial-owner level where the IB is a company — is a condition of issuance. Your counterparty due diligence is enforced by the process, not chased after the fact.
An introducer paid on approval, in full, in stable value has materially less reason to entertain the broker who called them last week.
You designed the rebate to change behaviour. Fees and delays are editing it for you.