Tracing a wire. What to expect?
 

This is a Payoneer related case - their system accepts ACH but wires dont come through and should generally be returned to a sender.

But how does ti work in reality?

The $$ client sent are now in cyberspace. Payoneer says they cant do a thing, client says no money back.

What measures the client's bank could take to trace the wire?

I think only the sender/senders bank can do a trace as far as i know.

Ask your client for the swift message / receipt, then provide it to Payoneer.
Payoneer can trace the wire this way.
If the receiving bank suspect there is a problem with the wire ( it's fraud / illegal activities ) they could have sent a swift message back to the origin bank asking for clarification, the sending bank is probably just sitting on it until the sender contact them

Contacted Payoneer online help, they simply refused to help. I have the confirmation but they said I'd have to bug the senders bank.

Bank that sends the wire is the "holder" of the transaction, they can trace it.

Okay, seems like the client is the one who can do something to find out via the bank.

In all circumstance the sender (remitter - debtor) has to prove payment. They would have to initiate the trace with their bank. A intermediary bank will occasionally (rarely ) lose a wire.

Usually, unless you have done a lot of successful business with the remitter (sender), they are 99% full of shit. Maybe, it's in the very small percentage of wires that get lost ...

Rooski, don't bother, i don't read your shit.