Money
Small Businesses Discover Treasury Management
Higher rates taught small companies that idle cash has a price. The habits they built are outlasting the rates that created them.
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Sunday, August 16th, 2026 105 stories Independent & Reader-Supported
Higher rates taught small companies that idle cash has a price. The habits they built are outlasting the rates that created them.
After years of earning nothing, household savers have become rate shoppers, and the deposit market is behaving like a market again.
Facing depositors who can move money in seconds, smaller banks are investing in retention tooling that watches balances the way retailers watch shopping carts.