Pricing & capital workstation

From rate sheet to Return on Capital, in one workstation.

Margin Desk prices commercial and residential mortgage deals, computes Return on Capital under UK Basel 3.1, and rolls books into portfolio analytics — in the browser, on desktop or iPad, with no install.

Price. Capitalise. Decide.
Multi-region — USA · UK · Eurozone · OHADA-FCFA Offline-capable · works on iPad Every figure explained & traceable
The workstation

One model, from a single deal to the whole book.

Each instrument shares the same engine, so a deal you price flows straight into capital and portfolio — no re-keying, no broken spreadsheet links.

Single deal

Price a deal and see the margin instantly.

Enter the loan, LTV, rate and fees; the margin, basis points and net price update as you type. A clear Healthy / Thin / Loss verdict and a full breakdown show exactly where every basis point comes from.

  • Live margin in cash, %, and bps as you type
  • Customer rate and fees drive the result
  • Project the margin across your whole book
Margin on this dealHealthy
£6,150
on £300,000 · 5yr Fixed · 72% LTV
Net annual spread+0.44%
Lifetime spread × 5yr+2.20%
Fees − origination−0.15%
Margin %2.05%
Pricing desk

Price many deals at once, see the blended book.

Every row prices live and the totals blend underneath. Sort, edit inline, and roll the whole book up by product — then send it straight to Capital & RoC or Portfolio in one click.

  • Inline editing with live re-pricing per row
  • Blended margin and per-product rollup
  • Save, load and export books to CSV
Pricing desk · 3 deals£1.05m
5yr Fixed · 65%+221 £6.6k
5yr Fixed · 75%+138 £6.9k
Buy-to-Let · 70%+164 £4.1k
Blended+0.73% · £17.6k
Rate sheets

Your pricing engine, fully editable.

The rate sheet is the source every deal prices against — note rates, cost of funds, LTV add-ons, LLPA grids and fees. Edit a product, add or rename, and every open deal re-prices against it.

  • Per-region engines: par-price or spread-fee
  • Add, rename and delete products safely
  • Reset to a worked demo at any time
UK rate sheet · note rates4 products
2yr Fixed4.19%
5yr Fixed4.29%
Buy-to-Let5.49%
Cost of funds3.95%
Capital & RoC · UK Basel 3.1

Know the capital, and the return on it.

Compute risk-weighted assets, capital required and Return on Capital under UK PRA Basel 3.1. Owner-occupier loans split at 55% of value; buy-to-let and commercial use the whole-loan table. Every risk weight is an editable, explained assumption.

  • Loan-splitting and whole-loan treatments
  • Margin waterfall down to net RoC
  • RAG status against your target hurdle
Owner-occupier · £100m · 70% LTVOn target
RWA
£28.5m
Return on capital
27.4%
LOAN-SPLIT AT 55% OF VALUE
≤55% · 20%
above · 75%
Portfolio analytics · UK Basel 3.1

BackBook, New and Blended — capital and RoC across the book.

Roll desk and product data into the existing book, new business, and the two blended. RWA and capital build additively across waterfalls; margin and RoC are tracked against your targets with red / amber / green status.

  • RWA, capital and RoC waterfalls
  • Editable margin targets and capital rules
  • Concentration by product, LTV and book
Blended portfolioNear target
Capital required
£19.4m
Return on capital
39.4%
Blended margin
1.17%
Average LTV
60.8%
On the roadmap Affordability & eligibility · Loan valuation (NPV) · Securitisation / MBS · US & EU capital regimes · shared accounts and sync
The concept

Why Margin Desk exists.

Pricing desks still run on fragile, siloed spreadsheets. Margin Desk replaces them with one explainable model that ties pricing, capital and portfolio together.

1

Price

Enter a deal or a whole desk. Margin, bps and net price compute live against your rate sheet, in any of four regions.

2

Capitalise

Send the deal or book into Capital & RoC. See RWA, capital required and Return on Capital under UK Basel 3.1.

3

Decide

Roll it into Portfolio analytics — BackBook, New and Blended — and judge it against your margin and RoC targets.

What it is

A browser-based pricing and capital workstation for mortgage lending. It turns a deal into a priced, capital-aware decision in seconds — margin, Return on Capital and portfolio impact — with no installation, working offline on desktop or iPad. Every number carries an info icon explaining what it is, how it's used and how it's calculated.

The problem it solves

Margin, capital and portfolio usually live in separate spreadsheets that drift out of sync and hide their workings. Margin Desk unifies them in one model where pricing flows into capital and portfolio automatically, and the assumptions behind every figure are visible and editable.

Who we're pitching it to

Building societies & specialist lenders
Pricing, product and treasury teams who price daily and answer to capital.
Challenger & SME-focused banks
Lean teams that need fast, defensible margin and RoC without a quant build.
Commercial real estate & BTL lenders
Whole-loan capital treatment and book-level economics in one view.
Brokers, packagers & advisers
Quick, branded margin answers and quotes for client conversations.
OHADA / Francophone Africa lenders
Native FCFA pricing alongside USA, UK and Eurozone — a region most tools ignore.
Advisory & consulting firms
A white-labelled engine to run pricing and capital reviews for their clients.

How we make money

Margin Desk is sold as a licensed SaaS workstation, gated by licence key, in tiers that scale from a single broker to a whole lending desk. The free trial prices a single deal so a prospect can feel the product before they buy; Desk and Capital are per-seat monthly; Enterprise is an annual institutional licence with the shared backend, audit trail, extra capital regimes, white-labelling and an API. See the licensing packages below.

Licensing

Packages that scale from one broker to a whole desk.

Start free with single-deal pricing. Move up as you add deals, capital and a team. Activate any tier with a licence key.

Trial
Free
Feel the product before you buy.
  • Single-deal pricing, all four regions
  • Full breakdown & info tooltips
  • Watermarked exports
Start pricing
Desk
£75/ seat · month
For a working pricing desk.
  • Everything in Trial
  • Pricing desk & editable rate sheets
  • Save / load books · CSV export
  • Lifetime & annualised margin basis
Choose Desk
Recommended
Capital
£150/ seat · month
Pricing plus capital and portfolio.
  • Everything in Desk
  • UK Capital & RoC (Basel 3.1)
  • Portfolio analytics & waterfalls
  • Cross-model linking · branded PDF quotes
Choose Capital
Enterprise
Custom
For a whole institution.
  • Everything in Capital
  • Shared accounts, rate sheets & sync
  • Audit trail · US & EU capital regimes
  • White-label · SSO · API · support SLA
Talk to us

Indicative pricing — final packaging and per-seat rates are set with each client. All tiers activate by licence key.

See a deal priced and capitalised in under a minute.

Launch the workstation — it's pre-filled with worked data, so you can price, capitalise and roll a book without entering anything first.

Margin Desk

The pricing workstation for mortgage desks.

Price deals, build rate sheets, and test product profitability and capital under Basel 3.1 — in one place.

Multi-region pricing: USA, UK, Eurozone, OHADA
Capital & Return on Capital with live RWA
Editable rate sheets, desk view, book economics
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