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Thursday, July 25, 2019

New Ad-Tech Platform Puts Big Bet on Consumer Voting

Top Inc., an advertising software company, announced the launch of their direct-to-consumer voting app, Topvote. Topvote partners with brands like Priceline, E. & J. Gallo Winery and others, to collect user-generated content and consumer feedback on what consumers think is the "best."

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The Topvote engagement platform, built by Top Inc. incentivizes consumers to participate with advertising, and opt-in to sharing data in return for winning rewards or recognition. The Topvote app for iOS (Android coming shortly), crowdsources who should win the "top vote" in all kinds of categories. Unlike other media platforms, the entries and voting is open and visible to everyone, regardless of connections. People can follow where the results stand in real-time. The app can personalize the content to each user, and also power private voting or competitions between friends.

Topvote gives Priceline the opportunity for people to submit pictures to them of their favorite summer vacation, in exchange for a chance to win hotel discounts. Other prizes could be brand gift cards, cash, or other recognition from the brand, like a chance to be featured in their marketing. For some competitions, it's just the chance to be recognized as being the best at something, and voted by peers, instead of a publication or one person's opinion.

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"Marketers want to collect opt-in, first-party data, and consumers want a direct voice with brands," says Top CEO, Will Cohen. "As the IAB has recognized, opt-in, value-exchange advertising is quickly becoming a trusted format that provides true value and appeal for consumers. Our platform makes it simple for consumers to participate personalized competitions and voting campaigns. We can also extend these campaigns into any other form of media to drive scale. We want to give people a voice and to feel recognized for their talent and content. Topvote provides a way to do this."

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Top, Inc's primary business is in powering technology for marketers to engage with consumers in their media, whether it's a marketer's website or within a paid ad placement. For example, Top and Lightbox OOH Video Network, created an interactive voting campaign on the most popular summer fashion trends of 2019, running across 4,000 video screens, in 300 malls nationally. Mall shoppers across the country see the campaign on large video screens within these shopping malls. Votes are tallied in real-time and automatically displayed for the voter. Participants are also entered into a chance to win a $500 gift card to shop at the mall. Topvote provides Lightbox with the opt-in data, and additional highly valuable shopper insights on them, such as consumer location, demo, household income and purchase behavior.

Will Cohen and Co-Founder, Terra Ingalls, both served as Vice Presidents for WPP's Triad Retail Media, working with large brands and retailers, like Walmart and eBay. "We spent the last decade working in digital advertising, at the forefront of data, promotions and media. With everything going on with data privacy and viewability, we knew the way marketers interact with consumers needed reinvention," says Terra Ingalls, COO of Top. "The first rule of selling is to listen, but advertisers who are selling products or services to consumers, don't traditionally do this. We wanted to build a platform that lets brands easily listen to their consumers by asking for their opinions and provide a value-exchange for opting-in to share their information with marketers."

Top Inc. is an advertising software company, helping brands collect opt-in data through consumer engagement and voting platform, Topvote. Topvote engages consumers with branded rewards and incentives, in return for their vote and opt-in, first party data.

Contact:
Will Cohen, CEO
wcohen(at)topcorp(dot)com
772-359-1245
http://www.topcorp.com

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Cassini Systems set to provide relief to firms affected by BCBS/IOSCO’s change in the final phases of implementation of UMR with an AANA-Management Service

Cassini Systems, the leading provider of pre and post trade margin analytics, and a provider of a fully featured end-to-end SIMM Calculation Service, has today announced the launch of their AANA-Management Service.

This service provides relief to firms affected by BCBS/IOSCO's change in the final phases of implementation of the Uncleared Margin Rules.

These changes add a new complexity with the addition of a 50bn AANA threshold, creating an opportunity for some firms to strategically manage their derivatives exposure and remain below the 50bn threshold.

Liam Huxley, CEO and Founder of Cassini, said of the announcement, "Clearly, the intent of the delay is to provide more time for smaller and medium size firms to prepare fully, especially in Europe where there is a requirement to perform back-testing".

Considering the additional staggered implementation times based on in-scope firms' AANA threshold, Cassini offers an AANA Management Service which helps firms monitor their AANA, but also enables them to reduce their outstanding bilateral margin exposure.

These tools, available immediately, include:

1) The ability to calculate and monitor AANA exposure to determine in which phase your firm must begin posting initial margin under UMR.

2) Notional Reduction Tools to ensure you remain under the 50Bn or 8Bn threshold.

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These include:

a) Notional Compression

b) Risk Replacement Optimization

c) Strategic Clearing

3) SIMM Limit Monitor

Huxley said: "With the AANA deferral, the temptation will be to simply put the UMR/SIMM project on hold for 12 months but that would be a mistake as there is a distinct opportunity to take advantage of this additional preparatory time. Rather than being forced to move quickly, firms can now take a more holistic, strategic approach to their collateral and margin management processes".

Those firms with over 750 BN in AANA will still be required to begin posting Initial Margin from September 1st, 2019. Firms with 50BN-749 BN notional exposure will now begin posting in September 1st, 2020 and those with exposure between 8BN and 49BN will begin posting from Sept 2021. As before, firms with AANA under 8Bn are exempt.

About Cassini
Managing a portfolio of OTC and ETD products needs powerful tools. Cassini goes beyond margin calculation and enables:

Cassini services enhance portfolio returns at every point in the daily business cycle. Empower your traders and portfolio managers with pre-trade lifetime cost analysis.

Ensure compliance by observing trade routing rules for execution and clearing. Reduce collateral costs through advanced asset optimisation. Enable your firm to stay under the 50 million IM threshold for UMR.

Margin for cleared and uncleared business is a portfolio lifecycle problem. Choose the Cassini services which suit your firm and move ahead of your competition.

Cassini is an official licensee of the ISDA SIMM(tm) model.

For more information, please visit http://www.cassinisystems.com, or get in contact at info@cassinisystems.com

The Humanity Forward Fund Forms to Support 21st Century Solutions to 21st Century Problems, Advocates for Andrew Yang’s 2020 Presidential Run

Supporters of Andrew Yang, the surprisingly durable outsider candidate for President currently polling at *6th among the Democratic hopefuls (ahead of Booker, Klobuchar, Gillibrand and many others) are starting a Super PAC, the Humanity Forward Fund, stylized as HumanityFWD. To recognize Yang's standing as the only current candidate known for supporting cryptocurrency, HumanityFWD is exclusively accepting donations via Bitcoin (BTC) for the first 21 days after launching at http://www.HumanityFWD.org.

HumanityFWD is on a mission to build a new economy, one that puts people first and at the center of our society. HumanityFWD recognizes that 21st Century Problems require 21st Century Solutions. This includes transforming the future of work in a world of rapid advances in automation and technology; tackling the existential threat of climate change and recognizing healthcare and basic economic security as human rights. These challenges are existential and urgent. HumanityFWD seeks to build a new future, based on abundance and American prosperity, by supporting transformational leaders and bold policies that address these challenges.

HumanityFWD will leverage media and messaging to raise awareness on both a national and hyper-local level of Andrew Yang, Universal Basic Income, Human-Centered Capitalism, and the 4th Industrial Revolution.

HumanityFWD is a different kind of Super PAC. In an ideal world, Super PACs wouldn't exist, but they do. To level the political playing field, HumanityFWD must exist, but won't compromise the VALUES of Andrew Yang and his supporters. This means HumanityFWD will be 100% transparent, refuse all "dark money" and disclose exactly how the money is spent. It's simply the FWD thing to do.

For the first 21 days after HumanityFWD's launch, donations will be taken only in the form of Bitcoin payments, as many in the cryptocurrency community are excited to support Yang's candidacy. HumanityFWD and OpenNode have partnered on the 21 DAYS OF BITCOIN FOR THE 21st CENTURY fundraising challenge to celebrate the launch of the Humanity Forward Fund. Every fraction of every coin donated will go directly toward helping get Andrew Yang elected President of the United States in 2020.

It's time to act. It's not Left, it's not Right… It's HumanityFWD.

About OpenNode:

OpenNodes's mission is to help bridge the gap between global commerce and bitcoin. They provide simple payment tools for merchants, API infrastructure for developers, and instant bitcoin settlements for your business. With OpenNode, you can experience the newest evolution in bitcoin payments.

Paid for by the Humanity Forward Fund (humanityfwd.org) and not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee. Contributions or gifts to Humanity Forward Fund are not deductible as charitable contributions for federal income tax purposes.

Qualfon Recognized in the Everest Group PEAK Matrix Assessment

Qualfon, a full-service business process outsourcing (BPO) and contact center service provider, was recognized as a Major Contender in the Everest Group Contact Center Outsourcing (CCO) – Service Provider Landscape with PEAK Matrix™ Assessment 2019. This marks the first year Qualfon has been recognized on the PEAK Matrix by Everest Group; an indicator of the company's investment in a full spectrum of capabilities to drive transformations for its clients and create differentiation in the market. Read here.

All qualifiers were required to submit an RFI (Request for Information) response, including the following components:

In addition, global surveys and one-on-one, executive-level interviews were held with a select group of Qualfon's top clients. These interviews focused on:
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Based on the RFI response and client feedback, Qualfon was recognized as a Major Contender for its unique delivery capabilities, remarkable growth, and positive customer feedback.

"To attain the Major Contender positioning — stacking up against some of the biggest players in the BPO industry — is a huge accomplishment for Qualfon," said Trevor Allen, Chief Commercial Officer, Qualfon. "Everest Group is one of the top analyst firms in the BPO space and we feel incredibly honored to be recognized by such a creditable group of analysts as a Major Contender in our industry."

The PEAK Matrix is a framework to assess the relative market impact and the vision and capability of service providers. Everest Group's PEAK Matrix is the most trusted, fact-based analysis of global services providers, locations, and products & solutions. Full details on the report can be found here: Contact Center Outsourcing (CCO) – Service Provider Landscape with Services PEAK Matrix™ Assessment 2019.

To learn more about Qualfon's services, contact Jessica Watz directly at jwatz@qualfon.com.

ABOUT QUALFON
Qualfon is a full-service business process outsourcing (BPO) company offering full customer lifecycle management: lead generation, end-to-end integrated marketing, multi-channel customer engagement, and fulfillment. With experienced BPO leadership and a strong track record of business growth, Qualfon helps companies reduce costs and deliver superior customer experiences. Today, Qualfon has approximately 16,000 employees serving international brands across many industries, and our intelligent outsourcing locations span the United States, the Philippines, Guyana, Mexico, and Costa Rica.

Qualfon's mission to "Be the Best BPO, Make People's Lives Better" means we invest in our people and, in return, they take better care of you and your customers. Qualfon's employee retention regularly exceeds the industry average, which creates a people-driven value chain: our employees stay longer, providing higher quality service at a lower price.

Online Sales of Automotive Accessories Continue to See Growth, According to The NPD Group

Online dollar sales of automotive accessories – including appearance accessories, cargo management, exterior accessories, interior accessories, towing & hitch, and tire & wheel accessories – grew by 26 percent in the 12 months ending April 2019, according to The NPD Group's Checkout E-commerce Tracking. Additionally, 34 percent of online dollar volume during the same time period resulted from sales within these six accessory categories.

"Online accessory sales are seeing gains, as the e-commerce channel is able to offer an expansive selection that can be challenging for retailers to match or maintain in brick and mortar locations," said Nathan Shipley, executive director and automotive industry analyst, The NPD Group. "Accessories are also not typically required as urgently, whereas a replacement car battery may drive a consumer in-store for same-day purchase."

According to Checkout data, more than half of consumers that made an automotive aftermarket purchase online bought an automotive accessory. In fact, many of the accessory categories are seeing double-digit online sales gains with appearance accessories up 56 percent, interior accessories up 32 percent, and exterior accessories up 31 percent.

While pure-play online retailers are capturing the greatest share of automotive accessories e-commerce sales, traditional retailers remain in the mix as they work to replicate their in-store sales strengths through web-based offerings.

"Consumers continue to move purchases of hard-to-find items – such as application-specific automotive accessories – online," added Shipley. "While pure-play 'etailers' own the lion's share of sales in these categories, there is opportunity for traditional brick-and-mortar stores to remain competitive by creating user-friendly web experiences while also offering a variety of accessories, competitively priced and available to ship. In-store pick-up options – convenient for the consumer – may also help keep foot traffic in the stores for the purchase of automotive accessories that are not time sensitive." Read here.

About The NPD Group, Inc.
NPD offers data, industry expertise, and prescriptive analytics to help our clients grow their businesses in a changing world. Over 2000 companies worldwide rely on us to help them measure, predict, and improve performance across all channels, including brick-and-mortar and e-commerce. We have offices in 27 cities worldwide, with operations spanning the Americas, Europe, and APAC. Practice areas include apparel, appliances, automotive, beauty, books, B2B technology, consumer technology, e-commerce, fashion accessories, food consumption, foodservice, footwear, home, juvenile products, media entertainment, mobile, office supplies, retail, sports, toys, travel retail, video games, and watches / jewelry. For more information, visit npd.com. Follow us on Twitter: @npdgroup.

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Checkout offers robust data for tracking and improving performance across all channels plus buyer analytics to help businesses keep current customers and win new ones. The Checkout Omnipanel tracks online and in-store sales. A complementary e-commerce panel delivers more granular views of sales through the fastest growing channel with access to over 1 million consumers via our research partner Rakuten Intelligence. Buyer analytics deliver insight into most valuable customers, brand loyalty, brand leakage / lift, brand launches, and more.

Please note: Automotive aftermarket online dollar sales referenced does not include online tire sales. Source: The NPD Group, Inc. / Checkout E-Commerce Tracking, 12 months ending April 2019.

Kovels On Antiques & Collectibles August 2019 Newsletter Available

Vintage garden furniture auctioned in Philadelphia is featured in a sale report in Kovels On Antiques & Collectibles August 2019 newsletter. Kovels' focuses on rustic stone and cast-iron benches with naturalistic elements like leaves, grapevines and tree trunks. Be sure to see the pair of cast iron benches with oak leaves and pinecones that brought more than $18,000.

Bidders took time to admire antique pocket watches at a New Hampshire auction. Kovels' latest newsletter pictures American-, British- and Swiss-made timepieces with open faces or hunting cases that spoke of an elegant era of accessories. The most expensive, a working 14-karat gold c.1885 Waltham model, sold for $20,000, while a Swiss Civil War-era watch with a battlefield image on its face brought $400. Other examples were priced in between.

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Rookwood pottery has been popular for over 100 years and their large, important pieces sell for thousands of dollars. But they also made small and useful pieces that are sometimes overlooked, like the paperweights pictured in the August newsletter. See paperweights depicting a monkey, squirrel, duck, bear, frog and others that sold for hundreds of dollars, as well as the Rookwood "crossover" advertising paperweight picturing the company name that brought $3,000. More advertising collectibles can be viewed in Kovels' August issue, and they have tires as their subject. Vintage signs with famous names and trademarks were auctioned in Indiana, and it doesn't take an automobiliana collector to recognize the companies and clever logos of Firestone, Michelin, Goodyear, Pirelli, Dunlop and others.

Modern glass vessels by contemporary glass artists auctioned for high prices in New Jersey. Find brilliantly colored glass in unpredictable shapes by Lino Tagliapietra, Dale Chihuly and William Morris along with their prices in Kovels' newsletter. And, finally, a selection of perennially popular porcelain figurines by Boehm is also part of the August issue. Sold at auction in Atlanta, the delicate detailed and hand-painted pieces depict plants, birds and animals.

Kovels' popular illustrated Collector's Gallery answers readers' questions about a porcelain hatpin holder, a set of Old Maid cards, a Royal Bayreuth pitcher and a marked silver-plated bowl. The August Dictionary of Marks lists makers of modernist-style jewelry. And more than 70 antiques and collectibles are listed in the August Buyer's Price Guide.

Kovels On Antiques & Collectibles is available as a print subscription, or as a digital version that is part of the Kovels.com Premium subscription.

Terry Kovel is one of America's foremost authorities on antiques and collectibles. She is the well-known columnist and author of more than 100 books on antiques and collecting. The 2019 edition of Kovels' Antiques & Collectibles Price Guide is available at Kovels.com and local bookstores. This all-new 51st edition of Kovels' popular annual price guide features 16,000 prices and more than 2,500 photos, larger than ever before, on items in categories most sought-after by collectors. New this edition – 300 marks to help identify and date pottery, porcelain, glass and other collectibles. Terry Kovel will discuss antiques and collectibles topics with accredited media. Photographs are available. Contact pr(at)kovels(dot)com.

About Kovels.com
Kovels.com, created by Terry Kovel and her daughter, Kim Kovel, provides collectors and researchers with up-to-date and accurate information on antiques and collectibles. The company was founded in 1953 by Terry Kovel and her late husband, Ralph. Since then, the Kovels have written more than 100 books and hundreds of articles about antiques, including the best-selling annual Kovels' Antiques & Collectibles Price Guide. Their nationally syndicated antiques and collectibles newspaper column is distributed by King Features Syndicate to many newspapers nationwide. Terry and Ralph starred in television series on PBS, the Discovery Channel, and Home & Garden Television (HGTV). The website, Kovels.com, has been online since 1998. It offers more than a million free prices, and includes a free weekly email called "Kovels Komments," giving readers a bird's-eye view of the market through the latest news, auction reports, a Marks Dictionary, readers' questions and answers and much more.

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Liz Lillis
216.752.2252
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Tompkins International Announces A New Strategic Alliance With Etail Solutions

MonarchFx and NexusFx, both Tompkins International companies, have formed a strategic alliance with Etail Solutions. This alliance will enhance and complete product and service offerings for all clients. Read all the latest news.

The synergies of going to market together will make all three businesses more competitive. Together they are offering top brands and sellers unrivaled digital commerce capabilities, topline growth opportunities and strategic fulfillment tools to increase margins and aggressively deliver orders in alignment with guaranteed shipping programs.

NexusFx empowers consumer packaged goods brands to build and manage direct-to-consumer experiences, engagements and sales through its technology, marketing and services platform. The NexusFx digital toolset also enables brands to access and utilize critical first-party data, assisting them in making real-time decisions.

MonarchFx was created to give brands and retailers a highly credible fulfillment solution, superior to other alternatives. MonarchFx provides quality services at reasonable prices, requiring low capital investment.

The power of the Etail Solutions platform comes in its unique capability to execute the strategies provided by NexusFx and to connect, integrate and automate the client's entire sales and supply ecosystem, from customer-facing listings on sales channels to all possible sources of supply, including MonarchFx. No other platform achieves this deep level of integration, automation and absolute data integrity.

"This combination of skillsets, thought-leadership and platform capabilities allow us to jointly offer top brands and sellers best-in-class services for end-to-end supply chain capacities," stated Michael Anderson, CEO, Etail Solutions.

"I am happy to announce our strategic alliance with Etail. This alliance provides value to all businesses, clients and consumers, making this combination of toolsets the first of its kind," stated Jim Tompkins, CEO, Tompkins International. Read this here.

About Tompkins International
Tompkins International is a supply chain consulting and implementation firm that maximizes supply chain performance and value creation. It enables clients to be more profitable and valuable, while also becoming more agile, flexible and adaptive to the marketplace. Tompkins collaborates with client teams to develop improved operations strategies, supply chain planning and execution across all the Mega Processes of supply chains (PLAN-BUY-MAKE-MOVE-DISTRIBUTE-SELL). Tompkins is headquartered in Raleigh, NC and has offices throughout North America and in Europe and Asia. For more information visit: http://www.tompkinsinc.com.

About NexusFx
NexusFx, a Tompkins International company, builds and manages direct-to-consumer (D2C) channels for consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands. Our agility and flexibility to work within and around existing CPG processes ensures that projects are launched with speed and on budget. From strategy formulation to customer insights to product fulfillment, NexusFx's integrated approach delivers D2C capabilities to any brand entering or looking to grow further within the D2C market. For more information visit: http://www.nexusfx.com.

About MonarchFx
MonarchFx, a Tompkins International company, is an alliance of leading logistics service providers, supply chain technology providers and partners, managed by experienced executives, that provides world-class logistics and fulfillment solutions through an innovative logistics ecosystem. It serves retailers, brands and other sellers with multiple fulfillment channels, providing speed, quality and efficiency, operating with distributed logistics centers for nationwide coverage, allowing for same-day delivery. It is high-service, facilitated by advanced robotics, analytics and artificial intelligence methods for inventory allocation. For more information visit: http://www.monarchfxgo.com.

About Etail Solutions
Etail Solutions is a premier provider of integrated sales, fulfillment and supply chain automation solutions for online multi-channel retailers. Etail provides their Etail Vantage Platform (EVP) as a service for solving the real-world problems of mid-high volume online merchants by enabling coordinated multi-channel commerce through dynamic integrations to Sales Channels, Suppliers, Product Catalog content, Shipping Solutions, ERP systems and Marketing channels. For more information visit: http://www.EtailSolutions.com.