Andrew Jones will hold important back to back auctions the weekend of March 21 22 in Los Angeles

The sales will feature market fresh furnishings, decorations and accessories, fine art, antiques, design, Asian artworks, estate jewelry and fine silver from prominent collections and estates.

Downtown Los Angeles, CA, USA, March 10, 2020 -- Andrew Jones Auctions’ DTLA Collections & Estates auction on Sunday, March 22nd, will feature a vast selection of market fresh furnishings, decorations and accessories, all enticingly priced. The sale will be held online and in the gallery at 2221 South Main Street in downtown Los Angeles, starting promptly at 10:30 am Pacific time.

The auction will feature over 500 lots of important antiques and fine art. Andrew Jones Auctions will be the place to find unique, fun, quirky and out-of-the-ordinary accessories and furnishings, as well as luxe décor and statement pieces for the home, loft, gallery and retail space. Interior designers will be able to re-design a room or an entire home in an affordable, sustainable way.

The day before, on Saturday, March 21st, at 1 pm Pacific time, an UnReserved on Main St. auction will be held, with hundreds of lots to be sold without estimate or reserve. Starting bids will be just $10, to in-room clients only. Offered will be market fresh property from the same collections and estates, including fine art, furnishings, jewelry, silver, vintage décor and fine accessories. All bidding will be in the room or absentee; no online or phone bidding is allowed.

“On the heels of our wildly successful Collections Curated by Designers of Distinction auction last month, we are thrilled to bring more affordable, equally chic antiques, art and décor from the same collections and some new ones as well,” said company president and CEO Andrew Jones. He added, “The addition of fine jewelry will make these two days of sales even more exciting.”

The DTLA Collections & Estates auction will feature fine art, antiques, Asian works of art, design, decorations, fine jewelry, accessories, vintage and limited edition bindings and vintage finds from local private sources, including property from two private Beverly Hills collections: one curated by Hendrix Allardyce and the other the collection of Yasuko and Maury Kraines, with furnishings curated by Kalef Alaton.

Also up for bid will be property from the Bobby Burns family, property from the estate of Edward and Mildred Lewis of Bel Air, property from the estate of Pat and Jerry Epstein, residences decorated by James Lumsden, property from the Estate Francis A. Martin III of San Francisco curated by Steven Volpe, property from Donna Livingston Design in Los Angeles and the collection of Bryan Reitter Designs.

Antiquities to modern design and everything in between will also be on offer in the DTLA Collections and Estates sale, including a late Roman mosaic panel of an urn, probably 4th century C.E. (est. $2,000-$4,000); and an Etruscan terracotta votive head (est. $2,000-$4,000). A Kashmiri gilt bronze figure of seated Buddha with inlaid silver eyes, possibly dating to the 12th century AD (est. $10,000-$12,000) is an anticipated top lot in the Asian works of art section.

An Art Deco style silvered wood console table based on the model formerly in the collection of Nelson and Happy Rockefeller (est. $800-$1,200) is an interesting counterpoint to the early 19th century Chinese Export black and gilt lacquer games table (est. $1,200-$1,800). Elegant seat furniture by McGuire, Rose Tarlow and others with upholstered in rich fabrics like Fortuny silk and Mozart velvet will add color and style, like a pair of Louis XV style paint decorated fauteuils from the second half of the 20th century (est. $800-$1,200).

Historic signed documents from the likes of the Marquis de Lafayette, Benjamin Disraeli, Calvin Coolidge and others highlight the books and manuscripts offerings, which also include first edition collections from legendary authors Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck and Jack London.

A range of fine art will include California plein air works from Charles Muench, modern pieces from the likes of Jim Morphesis, Gene Logan and Fritz Scholder, ceramics by Peter Shire and photo prints by Frank Gehry, including a plate from Walt Disney Concert Hall portfolio, 2003 (est. $600-$1,000). All these will add artistic breadth to the auction.

Fine designer jewelry and watches from Audemars Piguet, David Yurman, John Hardy, Judith Ripka, Rolex, Tiffany & Co. and others, in a wide array of price points, will entice buyers. A pair of Vhernier diamond and 18k gold ear clips (est. $4,000-$6,000) are statement pieces. A whimsical and colorful Tony Duquette carved ruby in fuchsite, emerald, diamond and 18k gold brooch (est. $2,500-$3,500) is another highlight, along with a striking cultured pearl, amethyst, diamond and 18k gold necklace (est. $2,000-$3,000).

For those unable to attend in person, online bidding for the DTLA Collections & Estates sale will be facilitated by LiveAuctioneers.com and Invaluable.com. Public previews will be held March 19th thru 21st, from 10-5. Start times for the auctions will be 1 pm on Saturday, March 21st and 10:30 am on Sunday, March 22nd. All times quoted are Pacific. Telephone and absentee bids will also be accepted for the DTLA Collections & Estates auction.

For more information about Andrew Jones Auctions and the Saturday, March 21st UnReserved on Main St. auction and the Sunday, March 22nd DTLA Collections & Estates auction, please visit www.andrewjonesauctions.com. Updates are posted frequently.

About Andrew Jones Auctions:
Andrew Jones Auctions opened in summer 2018 and is the only full-service fine art and antiques auction house in downtown Los Angeles. The staff has a wealth of knowledge and international experience, having worked for many years at major auction houses in America and Europe, scouring property from across North America. The firm’s auctions are diverse and eclectic and feature fine items in many collecting categories spanning Antiquity through the 21st century. For more information about Andrew Jones Auctions, please visit www.andrewjonesauctions.com. Updates are posted frequently.

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BiKicom Launches BiKi Perpetual Contract Enters Market as Strong Contender

Singapore, March 09, 2020 -- Global digital assets trading platform, BiKI.com has announced the launch of its new product, Perpetual Contract, to meet the growing derivatives market demand.

No strangers to volatility, cryptocurrency investors are turning to the derivatives market as spot trading falls short of trader expectations in terms of profitability. The fast-growing exchange has launched BiKi Perpetual Contract in a bid to meet users’ hedging and investment needs.

The popularity of the futures contract has meant that competition is rife amongst exchanges in this market. To position as a strong contender, BiKi has carefully formulated its product to ensure an excellent user experience in aspects of risk control, system design and service, allowing the platform room for sustainable development. Offering obvious advantages, BiKi hopes the product will win over its platform users.

Advantages

BiKi Perpetual Contract supports up to 150 times of leverage to open positions. This caters to long-term position requirements and offers flexibility in the number of times of leverage, catering to investors’ different risk aversions.

Core Features of BiKi Perpetual Contract

1. From their assets, users can choose the amount and type of cryptocurrency they wish to transfer to their Swap Account from the Contract trading page, to serve as the margin for contract trading. This will guarantee efficient transacting, without having to consider exchange transactions between stablecoins and mainstream tokens, saving time and cost.

2. BiKi supports USDT-based margin contract and inverse contract transactions of mainstream tokens (BTC, ETH), which can be executed in limit and market orders, including trigger order for stop-orders, so traders do not need to constantly monitor rates to reap benefits or reduce loss.

3. BiKi Perpetual Contract offers “no overnight fees, no funding fees”. This allows users to enjoy reduced costs, reducing the risk for users as well.

4. BiKi uses zero clawback + margin mechanism with 100% flexible settlement of profits. In the past, many exchanges who launched contract products distribute contract benefits to users based on a certain ratio that prevents the exchange from losing out on profits. BiKi, on the other hand, uses a “zero clawback” approach, to reduce risk with contract so users can rest assured they will be awarded the rebates they deserve.

Hence, it can be seen that the BiKi Perpetual Contract covers nearly all the advantages of contract products on the market and eliminates the common ‘lesions’ in some products. As regarding security issues that investors are more concerned with, BiKi.com has set up a series of risk control measures to protect users.

Sign Up as Contract Brokers to Enjoy Multiple Benefits

BiKi is launching a complete set of ‘contract broker mechanisms’ in early March to allow platform users to enjoy multiple benefits.

A single community of more than 10 people may apply for contract broker status. Users who are agents or brokers on other platforms can directly obtain BiKi broker status to begin enjoying high commission rebates.

BiKi contract brokers also get to enjoy these benefits:

- independent back-end and same-day settlements
- access to 100%-accuracy, real-time reporting data provided by BiKi
- access to BiKi’s loyal customers and strong community
- assistance from BiKi to start contract trading classes
- media promotion to extend brokers’ influence

BiKi’s complete set of broker services as well as community and market resources allow brokers to reap long-term benefits.

Educate Users as a Priority

In futures contracts, high returns are often accompanied by high risks, hence the existing entry thresholds. BiKi.com is aware that without strong technology skills, a deep understanding of risk control capabilities and the financial system, it will be difficult to navigate in this market.

To aid novice users who are unfamiliar with regulations and market risks, BiKi has launched a contract trading tutorial to educate users on how to use contract products. This cautious attitude is in line with BiK’s user-centric approach of prioritizing users.

Always community- and user- driven, this approach extends to all aspects of how the exchange operates. With users as priority, BiKi consistently fine-tunes products and innovates new products, all the while strengthening its product lines while gaining user trust.

2019 has seen BiKi execute on many fronts. On the one hand it has launched mining pools, leverage, lending and other products, and on the other, it has deployed globally to push BiKi.com to a wider market. Whether it is execution or innovation, the exchange has gained the recognition of industry professionals.

With plenty of room to still grow, the entire digital currency market needs consistent revisions and iterations for a healthier, more complete, professional and transparent development. New players entering the market in the name of innovation and change will do well to always ensure that users are prioritized and that all products should be designed and improved with this in mind.

About BiKi.com
Headquartered in Singapore, BiKi.com is a global cryptocurrency exchange ranked Top 20 on CoinMarketCap. BiKi.com provides a digital assets platform for trading more than 150 cryptocurrencies and 280 trading pairs. BiKi.com is focused on providing the safest, most stable and most effective cryptocurrency trading platform. 100% of the transaction fees are used in buyback and burning of platform token, BIKI. Since its official opening in August 2018, BiKi.com is considered one of the fastest-growing cryptocurrency exchanges in the world with an accumulated 2 million registered users, 200,000 daily active users, over 2,000 community partners and 200,000 community members. BiKi.com has received investments from Huobi co-founder Du Jun, Genesis Capital Zhu Huai Yang, FBG Capital, ChainUP and others totaling approximately 10 million USD.

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Trust Business Partners and Koopid Inc Partnership

Trust Business Partners today announced that it has expanded its strategic partnerships through a new agreement with Koopid Inc.

London, England., March 7, 2020 -- Trust Business Partners today announced that it has expanded its strategic partnerships through a new agreement with Koopid Inc., the next-generation, AI-powered Customer Experience Orchestration platform, designed to enable seamless self-service customer journeys.

Trust Business Partners will be the face of Koopid in the UK&I, representing the brand through sales and marketing activity, recruiting new channel partners, systems integrators and creating local European strategic vendor alliances.

Koopid’s powerful AI and machine learning models connect siloed channels and delivers a single brand seemless experience to customers, meeting them at their preferred channel and at their desired interaction pace. All customer interaction data is persisted and curated for analyzing context, automation opportunities, personalizing customer interactions and increasing agent productivity.

Koopid’s technologies can now be integrated into many market-leading contact centre solutions, enabling seamless transitions from AI-driven customer self-service to live human assistance on chat or voice, while providing agents with conversational context together with a record of current and historical interactions. This delivers an improved customer experience as well as operational benefits across both digital and voice channels.

“Customers today demand well-informed and intelligent conversations and companies are constantly looking at new ways to enhance services while improving time to resolution and reducing cost. Koopid is focused on providing seamless end-to-end customer experience management and will enable partner channels to grow additional revenue streams and service customers better. With Koopid, agents can interact with customers simultaneously on voice and digital channels and leverage virtual agents to complete transactions. We believe that with this partnership, customers we will be able to define the future of hyper-personalized customer journeys, resulting in significant improvements in time to resolution and cost of resolution.” said David Pitts, Founder Partner at Trust Business Partners

“Koopid’s out-of-the box, routing as well as agent desktop software enables agents to provide efficient and informed service through delivering context of current and historical interaction and intelligent agent suggestions.” said Venkatesh Krishnaswamy, CEO, Koopid.

“Our customers have deployed solutions in domains like banking, citizen services, IT services, advisory services, travel, hospitality, healthcare and boutique retail. We hope that this relationship will further extend the significant lead that we enjoy in the communication space, while also expanding the Koopid footprint in the market,” added Krishnaswamy.

Koopid recently collaborated with Avaya on an AI-powered chatbot designed to transform legacy resident-city interactions for several smart city projects in UP and Haryana, India. The chatbot can address residents’ queries with great accuracy, pulling instantaneously from a vast database of knowledge. Moreover, the chatbot can relay this information quickly, eliminating the need for long queues and waiting times.

Citizens can interact with the bot for complex form submission services, allowing citizens to type their question into the chat window, receive an instant response from a virtual digital assistant and fill out online forms. If citizen enquiries cannot be handled by the bot, the chat can be escalated to a human agent, along with the chat history, so that the issue can be addressed without needing to recap previous interactions.

About Koopid:
Koopid’s Multimode Virtual Assistant enables dynamic self-service journeys that incorporate natural language and visually rich user interactions, leveraging the full spectrum of today’s smartphone and web interfaces. Using Koopid’s xDesigner - a drag and drop service creation tool - a customer self-service journey template can be created in minutes with no programming required. These digital journey templates can be invoked from a number of channels: web portal, mobile app, mobile browser, SMS, email or consumer messaging. Each journey is instantiated as a cross-channel persistent conversation - therefore a customer can start on one channel (such as web portal), transition to a different channel (such as a mobile app) and simply continue the journey. At the core of Koopid is a powerful data platform that curates interaction context and conversation data in-line. As a result, customer journeys are continually optimized using AI and machine learning algorithms, personalizing the experience in real–time.

About Trust Business Partners:
Trust Business Partners are a niche consultancy specialising in supporting IT/Voice/Software vendors go to market strategy in the UKI & Europe. David Pitts and Graham Bunting’s (founding partners) experience of local markets is second to none having worked at partner, distributor and vendor level plus running their own successful businesses. To grow your business, we’re committed to innovation, partnership, and a relentless focus on what’s next. Simplification, communication and localisation provide a clear advantage in any market. We’re the company you can trust to help you deliver Experiences that Matter to your channels and customers.

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US Capital Global Securities Launches Dollar 50MM Equity Offering for Koine

San Francisco-based private financial group engaged by UK-based digital asset custody firm as lead placement agent for equity offering.

San Francisco, CA, USA., March 5, 2020 -- US Capital Global Securities, an affiliate of US Capital Global, is offering to eligible investors a $50 million investment opportunity in Koine Finance Ltd (“Koine”). Founded in London in 2017, Koine brings together the full suite of governance, compliance, risk management, and audit of real-time trading to the digital ecosystem. Its custody and settlement platform aims to provide clients with the tools to manage their assets in a low-latency, high-volume environment and benefit from notably increased security, agility, and efficiency.

Headquartered in San Francisco, US Capital Global is a full-service private financial group with an established track record in investment banking, asset management, and capital formation services. Its registered broker-dealer affiliate, US Capital Global Securities LLC, is acting as the lead placement agent for the investment offering for Koine.

Hugh Hughes, Chairman and CEO at Koine, said: “Koine aims to overcome the current post-trade spaghetti of digital assets trading and, through its market standard solution, to unleash the algorithmic trading community to grow volumes significantly. We believe the company meets the full needs of institutional capital in allocating funds using standard fund mandates, which could see the realization of the dream of many in the crypto-asset market. Koine aims always to achieve this within a gold-standard governance and licensing framework and using a significantly more robust security model that is hugely operationally scalable.”

“It’s an honor to support Koine as its lead financial advisor and placement agent on this $50 million equity offering,” said Charles Towle, CEO at US Capital Global Securities. “Having already launched in the UK and other trusted jurisdictions, Koine is focused on driving forward international institutional participation in the digital assets marketplace. Koine has been awarded an Electronic Money Institution (EMI) license, for the issuance of electronic money as part of its payment solutions, by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). The opportunity to participate in this $50 million equity investment in Koine is now open to eligible investors.”

About Koine:
Koine has created a custody and settlement platform for institutional market participants looking to invest in digital assets in a regulated environment. Established in 2017, the company aims to eliminate settlement and counterparty risks, delivering full governance, compliance, risk management, and audit of real-time asset trading. Koine combines a scalable business model with pioneering security and innovative engineering. Approximately two dozen institutions, funds, and family offices have chosen Koine to engage with their digital assets while fully adhering to regulated market practices. Koine is authorized as an Electronic Money Institution (EMI) by the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) for the issuance of electronic money with Firm Reference Number (FRN) 900934. www.koine.com

About US Capital Global:
US Capital Global Securities LLC is the FINRA-licensed broker-dealer division of US Capital Global that acts as placement agent for growth-stage companies, projects, and investment funds. Since 1998, the US Capital Global team has been committed to providing small and lower middle market businesses and investors with sophisticated debt, equity, and investment opportunities usually available only to larger middle market companies and institutional investors, using the latest FinTech and RegTech innovation. US Capital Global manages direct investment funds and provides wealth management and capital raise services.

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Regional Express Now Offers US Amazon Sellers a Simple Joint Application Solution for VAT Registration

Regional Express, part of Xpediator PLC, is pleased to announce its new online service offering joint UK and Germany VAT registration and tax filing for Amazon Sellers.

Southampton, UK, March 5, 2020 -- Regional Express, part of Xpediator PLC (AIM:XPD), is pleased to announce its new online service offering joint UK and Germany VAT registration and tax filing for Amazon Sellers, saving sellers’ time with being able to complete one online form for both countries.

Regional Express is a Service Provider (SPN) for Amazon Global Selling and provides VAT registration and tax filing services for Amazon sellers in the U.S. along with freight forwarding, warehousing & fulfilment, Amazon buffer storage and returns.

Once the UK VAT number is received, Regional Express can ship both the UK & DE stock to the UK and hold the DE inventory in the UK for quick onward movement to Germany.

Regional Express will be able to clear the shipment through UK customs using the seller’s UK VAT/EORI numbers. Regional Express can then deliver the UK shipment to Amazon as normal and then, as the UK VAT number is often received quicker than the German equivalent, hold the German stock in the Regional Express warehouse until the DE VAT number is received. Once the DE VAT number is received and the seller’s Amazon DE account live, Regional Express can label and send to Germany within 48 hours.

This means that sellers will be able to have their products on the Amazon shelves in the UK and Germany much quicker than normal.

Managing Director, Neil Curran, says “We are really pleased to be able to offer U.S. sellers this simple way to sell on both Amazon UK and Amazon Germany. It will be time saving and cost effective for sellers and we will help them through the entire process. As a business we are focused on continually innovating our service offering to meet evolving customer requirements, adding this new service demonstrates once again this commitment.

Find out more- https://www.regionalexpress.co.uk/services-for-amazon-sellers/uk-/-german-joint-vat-registration-and-tax-filing/

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Regional Express Ltd conduct all business under the current edition of the Standard Trading Conditions of the British International Freight Association, copy available on application or download from the website www.bifa.org

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Regional Express:
Regional Express, part of Xpediator Plc (AIM:XPD), is a global business specialising in freight forwarding, logistics and courier services. As an approved Amazon SPN the company can also provide VAT registration and filing, as well as logistics services for Amazon sellers in the UK, US and Europe.

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Regional Express
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