Turmoil hit the midmarket banking sector a little more than a year ago, leading to the collapse of several banks and corporate trepidation about the risks their banking counterparties pose.
Today, the sector has largely stabilized. Still, as the Association for Financial Professionals (AFP) found late last year, many treasury teams are moving their cash away from bank deposits and into T-bills and government or Treasury money-market funds (MMFs). Other organizations seem to be moving funds away from small and midsize banks and into the largest institutions, as banking activities go increasingly digital.
To get a sense of the ongoing risks to corporate deposits—and the various ways to mitigate them—Treasury & Risk talked to Reid Thomas, chief strategy officer at Ampersand, which offers a solution for spreading deposits across multiple banks.
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