Cash Pool Pricing Tool - Borrowing & Deposit rates
Companies managing cash pools often lack a consistent framework for setting arm’s length borrowing and deposit rates. The Cash Pool Pricing Tool addresses this using market data and creditworthiness analysis, with flexible delivery via Excel, software or AI workflows.
Cash pool structures often lack consistent and defendable pricing across participants, leading to inefficiencies and repeated analyses. The Cash Pool Pricing Tool enables centralised liquidity management with OECD-aligned borrowing and deposit rates applied consistently across the group.
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What is a cash pool pricing tool?
Cash pool pricing requires a structured and consistent approach to determine arm’s length borrowing and deposit rates across participants. The Cash Pool Pricing Tool provides this through creditworthiness analysis and external market benchmarks, ensuring OECD-aligned and defendable pricing. It supports centralised treasury operations by standardising pricing across entities, improving transparency and control. The solution can be implemented via Excel models, software solutions or AI-enabled workflows depending on client needs, reducing the need for separate benchmarking analyses and improving liquidity management efficiency.
- Reduces costs by removing the need for separate cash pool benchmarking analyses, integrating creditworthiness assessment and market data in one framework.
- Ensures consistent and defendable arm’s length borrowing and deposit rates aligned with OECD guidance across all cash pool participants.
- Improves centralised treasury control by standardising pricing across the group and enabling more efficient liquidity and financing decisions.
Who uses cash pooling tools?
Improves accuracy in cash pool borrowing and deposit pricing by replacing fragmented approaches with a consistent market-based methodology. Enhances compliance with OECD transfer pricing guidance and creates a transparent audit trail, supporting defensible documentation and reducing risk during tax authority reviews.
Treasury Departments
For treasury teams managing group liquidity and daily cash pool operations who require consistent, market-based borrowing and deposit rates.
Tax Departments
For tax teams responsible for ensuring cash pool transactions comply with OECD guidance and are supported by defendable arm’s length pricing.
Multinational Groups with Centralised Cash Pools
For multinational companies operating cross-border cash pooling structures and seeking standardised, transparent pricing across all participants.
What does the Cash Pool Pricing Tool enable?
The Cash Pool Pricing Tool is typically used to support the consistent determination of arm’s length borrowing and deposit rates within a centralised cash pool. It enables treasury and tax teams to apply creditworthiness-based pricing and external market benchmarks across all participants, ensuring alignment between liquidity management and transfer pricing requirements. It supports standardised rate setting, transparent allocation of cash pool benefits, and consistent application of OECD-aligned methodology across jurisdictions.
IC Integrated Borrowing & Deposit Pricing
Determines arms length borrowing and deposit rates within one structured framework, eliminating the need for separate cash pool benchmarking analyses entirely.
Integrated Borrowing & Deposit Pricing
Enables consistent arms length borrowing and deposit rates within one framework, removing the need for separate cash pool benchmarking analyses across structures.
Built-In Creditworthiness Analysis
Assesses each participants financial profile using qualitative and quantitative criteria to support consistent and defendable pricing decisions across all entities.
Market-Based Benchmarking
Applies corporate bond yield data and central bank overnight rates to reflect real market conditions for both borrowers and depositors in pricing decisions.
Consistent Participant-Level Pricing
Uses reliable external data sources aligned with OECD transfer pricing principles to ensure consistent and defendable pricing outcomes across all participants.
Flexible OECD-Aligned Framework
Provides a defendable methodology aligned with OECD Guidelines, adaptable across different delivery formats and implementation approaches for varied use cases.
Cash Pool Pricing Tool Use Cases
• Determine arm’s length borrowing rates for cash pool participants using creditworthiness analysis and external market data.
• Set deposit rates for surplus entities based on central bank overnight facility rates with consistent market-based adjustments.
• Apply standardised pricing logic across all cash pool participants, ensuring transparent allocation of pooling benefits and OECD-aligned outcomes.
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