MIMICS Equity Trading System Overview
MIMICS Equity Trading System is designed to facilitate taking and entering equity orders from clients, processing the completion of the orders, processing additional equity corporate actions, such as dividends and splits, and processing additional exchange and legal actions, such as certificate lodgement, pledging, indemnity fees, and transfer taxes. Fee and commissions are tracked for all activity. Full reporting is available.
MIMICS Equity Trading System allows the easy entry of equity orders. Buy and sell orders can be entered. A specific number of shares or a specific value can be entered. The price can be specified, or the order can be placed at the market price. Limit and stop/loss prices can be entered. You can indicate if there is a minimum required to fill, or that the filled amounts must be in a certain increment amount. The order duration can be entered as a day order, good ‘till a certain date, or as good ‘till cancel. If the stock exchange where the order is placed provides an interface, the MIMICS system can automatically post the approved orders.
Orders
Complete your orders manually or they can be completed manually. The trades can be imported from a file sent by the exchange. At the time of completion, the MIMICS system will verify that completion falls within the proper parameters specified when the order was placed (such as the price, the number of shares, etc.). Any completed shares that do not comply will be automatically posted to the house account.
Fees, Commissions and Taxes
The system calculates fees, commissions and taxes. Fee and commission defaults can be set for flat or tiered. Tiered schedules can have different tiers as flat amounts or as a percentage of principal. Taxes can be calculated on the fees and commissions charged. Fees and commissions can be overridden manually.
Equity Activity
Corporate actions are processed for active holdings. Both cash and stock dividends can be declared and processed. Stock splits are easily processed. Corporate mergers can be entered.
Additional share increases can be entered for activities such as bonus shares, dividend reinvestment, and the exercising of rights or options.
Certificates
Additional equity activity can be processed, including lodging certificates with the exchange, withdrawing certificates from the exchange, pledging certificates, releasing pledges, entering indemnity fees and transfer taxes.
Customer Activity
The customers’ account balances are tracked in the system. Receipts are posted when the customer deposits funds. Disbursements can be processed. If the disbursement is paid by check, the system can print the check and maintain the check register.
Approval Process
The activity entered in the MIMICS system can optionally be required to go through an approval process. For example, the order completion can be imported, and then go through the approval process to allow the verification of fees and commissions calculated.
Reports
Full reporting is available in the system for all types of activity. Forms, such confirmations and acknowledgements can also be printed, and can be set up in your custom layout.
Security
All data files are encrypted. The system provides multi-level password protection. All menu selections can be password-protected. Even fields and buttons can be protected. Profiles can be established for different job functions.
Report and Form Designer
With the optional report writer feature, you will be able to modify any report or form (such as a confirmations) with the layout feature. This feature includes the ability to design your own reports.
Website Reporting
As an optional feature, MIMICS can set up a Web Interface to allow your customers to log on to view and download reports and statements. MIMICS customizes all websites to match the aesthetic layout of your existing website.
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