Corporate cash managers need to pull themselves up the learning curve so that they’re ready to invest in tokenized money-market funds once safeguards for liquidity, safety, and yield are firmly in place.
The 2023 AFP Liquidity Survey found that treasurers are reducing bank deposits and moving investments toward more secure vehicles, reflecting the U.S. economic climate of 2022 and the bank failures of 2023.
"Overall, domestic banks have ample liquidity, ... [but] prime and tax-exempt money market funds, as well as other cash investment vehicles and stablecoins, remained vulnerable to runs."
From Japanese pensions and life insurers to foreign governments and U.S. commercial banks, where once they were lining up to get their hands on U.S. government debt, most have now stepped away.
