Does your company deal with increasing headwinds to managing volatility and providing liquidity? With the growing uncertainty around the world over potential treasury management, many corporates are questing to improve their cash management productivity, visibility, automation, and regulatory compliance. All of this can be done through in house banking.
In simple terms, in-house banking offers an internal or virtual account structure to the group entities, which hold the pulse to replicate the services of the external bank facility. It’s just like embracing facilities like liquidity management, funds collections, and payment processing to various subsidiaries of large global corporations.
Let’s jot down this theory into a simple and easy-to-understand illustration:
Multigrain international account company has four regional branches and ten departments respectively. Having said that, every branch has external accounts to maintain the treasury effectively.
In-house banking brings opportunities like centralized cash management streamlines responsiveness, improved visibility, security protocols, and simplified processes. Do you want to learn more benefits of in-house banking? Below shared are some of them:
When implementing in-house banking, legal regulations, compliance protocols, and taxation policies should be considered starting from the planning stages. The IHB entity just mitigates the requirement for handling its physical bank account with the implementation of the virtual bank account. It is worthwhile to note that some regulatory countries prohibit IHB structure or payment netting due to stringent tax regulations and compliance protocols. In this situation, a hybrid approach is adopted to reap the maximum benefits in this context. A hybrid approach of IHB adopts the regulations more gracefully.
Let’s say a country has tight regulations for exchange controls and inter-company lending. In this case, corporates can choose the hybrid approach using the operating companies’ bank accounts under the power of the IHB (either via Bankhub, an IMS solution and SWIFT connectivity). This arrangement will reduce cost efficiency and centralize all internal process efficiencies.
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