Correspondent banking advisory

Overview

Run Ventures works with treasury and payments teams on nostro and vostro account structuring, reconciliation processes and the controls that keep account positions accurate and disputes rare.

Our consultants support relationship management across a bank's correspondent network, helping clients assess concentration risk, account utility and service quality, and advise on liquidity optimisation so institutions are not carrying more trapped capital across their nostro accounts than their payment flows require.

As correspondent networks have thinned in some corridors and consolidated in others, Run Ventures helps banks reassess their correspondent footprint, strengthen the relationships that matter most and build the reconciliation discipline that keeps cross-border settlement reliable.

What we do

• Nostro/vostro structuring

  Structuring accounts so positions match how payments actually move.

• Reconciliation & controls

  Reconciliation processes and the controls that keep account positions accurate and disputes rare.

• Relationship management

  Assessing concentration risk, account utility and service quality across the correspondent network.

• Liquidity optimisation

  Reducing trapped capital across nostro accounts to what payment flows actually require.

Nostro and vostro

We help structure accounts so positions match how payments actually move, with no more capital parked across nostro accounts than flows require, and build a repeatable reconciliation discipline, with the controls that keep account positions accurate and disputes rare.

Assessing the network

Across a correspondent network we assess concentration risk, account utility and service quality, and how much liquidity each relationship ties up against what payment flows need.

Status across the chain is where SWIFT gpi helps; due diligence on counterparties runs through sanctions & compliance and the KYC Registry.