Cash pool implementation
A guide to efficient liquidity management
2025
Special knowledge
1 day
EUR 1.750,- plus VAT.
Content
Group financing by "pooling" surplus liquidity at a central location and balancing this liquidity within the group of companies often offers clear economic advantages. However, the path to efficient cash pooling is long and involves many questions and fundamental decisions on which the success of implementation depends.
From the different types of cash pooling to system support, financing components to transfer pricing and intercompany clearing - in our seminar we discuss with you all design options with their advantages and disadvantages so that cash pooling can be successfully integrated into your corporate structure. In the process, different strategies will be tailored to your business requirements and all implementation details will be carefully considered.
Main topics
Basics
- What are the tasks of the cash manager in the company?
- What are the minimum standards to be taken into account in the organizational structure & process organization?
- What are the differences in the accounting or treasury perspective? Which business management approaches do you need to understand?
- What are the requirements vis-à-vis banks?
- What are the current trends in cash management for large and small companies?
Types and characteristics of cash pools
- From Zero Balancing and Target Balancing to Cascade Pooling, (Multi-Curreny) Notional Pooling and Margin Pooling.
- What are the advantages and disadvantages of the different design options?
- What does a cost-benefit calculation look like?
System support for cash pooling
- Differentiation between system-controlled and bank-controlled cash pooling
- Banking systems functionality
- Mapping in treasury management systems
Bank tender
- Procedure, content, important points about cash management
- What does the pricing of banks look like with a cash pool?
Financing components in the cash pool
- Credit Offset
- Intraday frame
- Cash pool and ICC offsetting in the Group
- Transfer Pricing Variants and Operationalization in Treasury
Cash pool Country specifics
- What regional differences need to be taken into account?
- From USA to China - where are the differences?
Case study
- What can a suitable cash pool structure look like and what is the potential?
Group of participants
Employees and managers who are preparing a cash pool implementation or who want to redesign or critically review an existing cash pool solution. Employees who want to gain a broader overview of the possibilities of liquidity centralization as well as a better appreciation of the legal and tax aspects.
Corporate account managers and product specialists from banks who want to learn about their customers' day-to-day business from their perspective.
Targets
Participants will gain a comprehensive insight into the many ways in which cash pooling can be used to concentrate liquidity. In addition to the advantages and disadvantages, the process of implementing cash pooling in the group will also be explained. Participants will learn about the main legal issues related to cash pooling.