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Most people of any significant wealth would have made the delegation long ago to private client banking where a team of people overlook all aspects of the accounts. So yes, you are a fool not to if you have the level of wealth proportional to having it beaten out of you in your geopolitical region.

A custodial service is a bank that operates on a different network and is not FDIC insured (which only covers $250k). It could be insured privately. The interest on an FDIC deposit account is well below true inflation of fiat currencies.