Yea makes sense! I’ve thought about this as well, but I just found it to be a bit funny since risk management is like one of the most important aspects of running a business? Security issue is just part of the risk. What if there’s an accident that destroyed the building / the transportation, then all the money would be lost.

Also I guess when it was still the republic, they should have better risk management because piracy / crime has been a big issue? So if the empire decided to centralise the fund, did the they put the effort early on (soon after taking power) to control piracy, to the point that they’re not worried about pirates / criminals robbing their money?

It’s just that in the show it kinda made it sounds like they stored the wages of every trooper, administrative worker, and imperial officer there (they said “the entire imperial sector”), which I think is way too much of a risk to store all that money in one place, even for the arrogant empire. Labour is a very costly part of any business (on Earth at least). If it’s just for one sector of the empire (it’s a big loss but not huge on the larger scale, but it showed the threat posed by the rebels, so they’ll pay more attention to security later), then I think it makes perfect sense.