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    Certent Equity Management

    Score7.2 out of 10
    N/ACertent Equity Compensation Management, now part of Insightsoftware since the January 21 acquisition, helps companies stay compliant in the administration of equity awards and grants.N/A

    Interactive Brokers

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AInteractive Brokers helps Investors globally in stocks, options, futures, currencies, bonds and funds from a single integrated account . Accounts can be funded in multiple currencies and trade assets denominated in multiple currencies. with access market data 24 hours a day and six days a week.N/A
    Pricing
    Certent Equity ManagementInteractive Brokers
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Certent Equity ManagementInteractive Brokers
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Interactive Brokers offers different pricing structures for Commissions, Margin and Interest Rates accounts, Market Data and Broker Fees.
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    User Ratings
    Certent Equity ManagementInteractive Brokers
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (3 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Availability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    Certent Equity ManagementInteractive Brokers
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Insightsoftware, Inc
    Certent Equity Management is well suited in the following ways: 1. [The] software provides seamless integration to internal software. 2. [It provides] detailed reports of market equity management. 3. [The] software prepares financial equity footnotes for 10k reporting very well. 4. It helps with award modification [as] needed. 5. I enjoy doing capitalization tables.
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    Interactive Brokers
    Interactive Brokers is appropriate for retail equity investing and pension accounts holding - totally appropriate. Institutional accounts and proprietary trading group accounts - appropriate for those managing risks themselves because there is no automatic or supervised control and you trade at your own discretion. Not appropriate - is you look for crypto trading with instruments not accepted by regulator authorities as featured instruments with acceptable risk, to make sustainable and regulated investments with the main aim to preserve capital. All not regulated instruments are not appropriate and it is good and professional.
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    Pros
    Insightsoftware, Inc
    • Expense calculations – the whole accounting for equity awards is pretty technical and not real easy to follow. It does a good job of calculating GAAP expense for each award.
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    Interactive Brokers
    • Large financial instruments are available for trading - options, forex, derivatives, USTs
    • All main international exchanges are available to allocate
    • Fast and stable user interface
    • Fast connectivity
    • Python and Java API
    • Applications from Vendors
    • Data feed on demand could be added
    • Fast funds transfers and account set up
    • Supported all types of account: retail, trading group, retirenment, institutional
    • Fast quotes update without viable delay even for retail
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    Cons
    Insightsoftware, Inc
    • There are no features that are hard to use or that I would like to see improved.
    Incentivized
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    Interactive Brokers
    • Simplification of design (classic multy window to plain colorful palette Z-focused)
    • Choise of routes for order flow with clear comission cost
    • International bonds inclusion
    • Consider offering of CDS derivatives for ICE products
    • ESG selection - CO2 allowances instruments
    • Crypto wallets as a cource of margin connectivity are interesting for hybryd account
    • Sponsorship for FINRA licenses for non-institutional customers
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Insightsoftware, Inc
    I personally like the Equity Edge software better. The reporting is better and the software easier to use. The reason we didn’t continue to work with them is we didn’t want to use E-Trade as captive broker.
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    Interactive Brokers
    We use it and do not plan to switch. It fits all our current needs.
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    Usability
    Insightsoftware, Inc
    Pretty easy to go through and learn on your own.
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    Interactive Brokers
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    Reliability and Availability
    Insightsoftware, Inc
    I can only remember a couple of times when cannot access the system.
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    Interactive Brokers
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    Support Rating
    Insightsoftware, Inc
    We do not access support directly. We go through Plan Mosaic.
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    Interactive Brokers
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    Online Training
    Insightsoftware, Inc
    We had a 2 hour introduction to the software over a Webex meeting by Plan Mosaic, and a user guide. Plan Mosaic is a reseller.
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    Interactive Brokers
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    Implementation Rating
    Insightsoftware, Inc
    A lot of decisions had been made already when I joined. I thought it was a fairly smooth process. You just need to make sure that you do a good job of auditing all the awards that are transferred from system to system. We did a reverse stock split that caused challenges with rounding of shares.
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    Interactive Brokers
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    Alternatives Considered
    Insightsoftware, Inc
    As an organization, we have evaluated various Equity management and accounting software before shortlisting and testing these software and finally selecting 1 software. It has a user-friendly interface that helps and encourages employee participation. Moreover, it has simple and easy-to-understand grants and reporting, which are illustrated by easy-to-understand examples.
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    Interactive Brokers
    Reliable connection, fast interface, rapid data updates, lower comission costs that is all features coinsided at one place for Interactive Brokers trader workstation. Even account types offering is wider to include also trading group accounts not only retail, IRA 401. Interactive Brokers makes easy to enter the prop business or serve large family office needs as an adviser or discretionary mandate trader (EU)
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    Return on Investment
    Insightsoftware, Inc
    • It helps with taxation compliance, which could be a major issue.
    • [The] uploaded template helps with large amounts of data [that needs] uploading in grants and helps keep a lean team in management and operations.
    • [The] availability of different types of reports makes transactional activity easy.
    • Accounting, reporting, and disclosures become easy.
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    Interactive Brokers
    • Scalability - easy managed exposure of any size
    • ROI is sustainable, no exponencial growth but we get what is expected, not less SP500 return + KPI %
    • Comission flow is very low as compared to 3 - 4 years before the date
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