This was my guess as well. And based on my experience working on international payments, an additional headache is that in some cases, depending on exactly whic

This was my guess as well. And based on my experience working on international payments, an additional headache is that in some cases, depending on exactly which jurisdictions are involved, some of the parties can be forbidden by law from giving you detailed information about what's happening. This is another "doing what it's designed to do" situation (the idea is to avoid revealing certain information to bad actors) but it can be pretty frustrating to deal with.