Will AI agents cause the next corporate bank run?
AI agents could gradually change how corporate treasurers manage cash, reducing the inertia that keeps large balances in low-yielding bank accounts and putting pressure on banks’ deposit funding.


A recap of an ACT Annual Conference panel where Kevin Cook and Henry Adams joined treasurers from the AA and the UN Migration Agency to discuss how counterparty credit risk is changing in a post-COVID world.


Henry Adams questions the market's V-shaped recovery narrative given how far the real world still is from a return to normal, and sets out why a slower 'swoosh' recovery looks more realistic.


Henry Adams marks the launch of Bank Secured FTFs, which let clients place secured funds with highly-rated global banks at rates that beat most unsecured deposits.


Henry Adams reflects on a third consecutive year of extraordinary political and market shocks, and wonders whether 'unprecedented' is starting to become the new normal.


Henry Adams focuses on the UK for once, covering the Bank of England's decision to hold rates and maintain its bond-buying programme as the country heads into a bumpy start to the year.


Henry Adams looks at the redemption pressure building across mutual funds as the Fed's QE programme expands to absorb it, and asks how long it can be before equities need the same treatment.


Henry Adams reviews a quarter defined by bank failures and rescues on one side and strong earnings beats on the other, with net interest margins standing out as the number to watch.


Kevin Cook draws a direct line between watching Lehman Brothers collapse in 2008 and the SVB situation years later, and why concentration risk and maturity mismatches keep resurfacing.