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by acjohnson55 1186 days ago
This exists, many times over. It's called a cash sweep. See one example here: https://www.wellsfargo.com/investing/cash-sweep/
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And just as a warning, it is still not clear how sweep accounts are handled in the case where the primary bank fails. SVB offered sweep accounts. But due to the intervention, the recovery process of those accounts was never tested in a real life scenario. If recovering your sweep accounts takes months, that could be really bad for a business trying to make payroll. And from what I read, there is some "operational risk" as well, i.e. if a bunch of money hits your account the same day a bank fails, that money will be in your primary banks account and if it is over the FDIC limit that amount will be uninsured.
Great points. Maybe protection can be written into the rules to remove that uncertainty?