Treasury Optimization — Excess Liquidity
Charles Schwab holds $40.6B of cash and short-term investments against an operating reserve of $2.6B (10% of TTM revenue). A tiered treasury policy on the $38.0B above reserve can raise yield without reducing liquidity coverage.
- Cash & short-term investments$40.6B
- Cash & equivalents$40.6B
- Revenue (TTM)$26.0B
- Operating reserve (share of revenue)10.0%ASSUMPTION
- Yield uplift on excess cash0.5%–1.5%ASSUMPTION
- Yield uplift on already-invested short-term investments0.1%–0.3%ASSUMPTION
- Economic impact94
- Feasibility88
- Time to value100
- Capital efficiency90
- Strategic fit85
- Evidence strength100
- Capital required
- None material
- Time to value
- 3 months
- Execution complexity
- Low
- Regulatory complexity
- Low