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To: Edscharp who wrote (4366)1/15/2002 11:01:01 PM
From: mmmary  Respond to of 4443
 
Ed: Look at SEC filing

Item 2. Identity and Background.

The entity filing this statement is Kingsway Securities Holdings Limited, a British Virgin Islands company ("KSHL"). KSHL has its principal business and

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office address at P.O. Box 71, Craigmuir Chambers, Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands. KSHL is a holding company and, as such, its principal business involves the holding of investments.
During the last five (5) years, KSHL has not been convicted in a criminal proceeding (excluding traffic violations or similar misdemeanors). In addition, KSHL has not been a party to a civil proceeding of a judicial or administrative body of competent jurisdiction and, therefore, is not subject to any judgment, decree or final order enjoining future violations of, or prohibiting or mandating activities subject to, Federal or State securities laws or any finding with respect to such laws.

KSHL has only one director, William K. Lam, who is a Canadian citizen. Mr. Lam's principal business address is c/o Kingsway Group, 10 Harcourt Road, 5/F, Hutchison House, Central, Hong Kong. During the last five (5) years, Mr. Lam has not been convicted in a criminal proceeding (excluding traffic violations or similar misdemeanors). In addition, Mr. Lam has not been a party to a civil proceeding of a judicial or administrative body of competent jurisdiction and, therefore, is not subject to any judgment, decree or final order enjoining future violations of, or prohibiting or mandating activities subject to, Federal or State securities laws or any finding with respect to such laws.

As of the date of the filing of this Schedule 13D, KSHL is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Kingsway International Holdings Limited, a Bermuda company ("KIHL"). The principal business and office address of KIHL is c/o Kingsway Group, 5/F, Hutchison House, 10 Harcourt Road, Central, Hong Kong, and its principal business is the same as that of KSHL. During the last five (5) years, KIHL has not been convicted in a criminal proceeding (excluding traffic violations or similar misdemeanors). In addition, KIHL has not been a party to a civil proceeding of a judicial or administrative body of competent jurisdiction and, therefore, is not subject to any judgment, decree or final order enjoining future violations of, or prohibiting or mandating activities subject to, Federal or

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State securities laws or any finding with respect to such laws. The names, business addresses, principal businesses and countries of citizenship of the directors and executive officers of KIHL are set forth on Schedule 1 hereto.

Item 3. Source and Amount of Funds or Other Consideration.

Pursuant to the terms of a Stock Purchase Agreement, dated as of January 12, 2000 (the "Purchase Agreement"), by and among HK Weaver Group Ltd (formerly known as Kingsway Electronic Services Ltd), a British Virgin Islands company ("Kingsway"), the Issuer, and Universal Trading Technologies Corporation, a Delaware corporation and a subsidiary of ("UTTC"), and the Issuer. Kingsway

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acquired beneficial ownership of 123,240 shares of UTTC's Series KW Convertible Preferred Stock (the "Preferred Stock"), for an aggregate purchase price of $3,000,000. Kingsway did not purchase any of the Preferred Stock with borrowed funds. Kingsway purchased the Preferred Stock with funds from its holding company, KIHL. The Preferred Stock was then transferred to KSHL pursuant to an oral agreement by and between Kingsway and KSHL.
Under the terms of the Purchase Agreement, Kingsway was granted certain exchange rights which entitled Kingsway to exchange its shares of Preferred Stock into shares of the Common Stock.

Item 4. Purpose of Transaction.

KSHL's acquisition of the Preferred Stock and Common Stock was for investment purposes.

As of the date of the filing of this Schedule 13D, none of KSHL nor, to the knowledge of KSHL, any of its executive officers or directors, has any plans or proposals that relate to or would result in any of the matters referred to in paragraphs (a) through (j) of Item 4 of Schedule 13D.

Item 5. Interest in Securities of Issuer.

(a) The percentage interest held by KSHL presented below and in Row 13 above is based on the number of shares of the Issuer's Common Stock that was reported to be outstanding as of November 7, 2001, in the Issuer's 10-Q quarterly report filed on November 7, 2001, for the period ended September 30, 3001 (the "Outstanding Shares").

As of the date of the filing of this Schedule 13D, KSHL directly and beneficially owns 18,489,274 shares of Common Stock, representing approximately 31.6% of the Outstanding Shares.

William K. Lam, the sole director of KSHL, directly and beneficially owns 29,000 shares of Common Stock. Except as described in this Schedule 13D, KSHL is not aware of the beneficial ownership of the Common Stock by any other executive officer or director of KSHL.

Mr. Richard Yin, the deputy Chief Executive Officer and a director of KIHL, has been granted options to acquire 100,000 shares of the common stock of the Issuer at an exercise price of $5.50 per share and options to acquire 100,000 shares of the common stock of UTTC at an exercise price of $2.50 per share. Mr. Yin has not yet exercised any of these options. Except as described in this Schedule 13D, KSHL is not aware of the beneficial ownership of the Common Stock by any other executive officer or director



To: Edscharp who wrote (4366)1/15/2002 11:08:48 PM
From: mmmary  Respond to of 4443
 
Here is link to full filing

realtimefilings.nasdaq.com

they bought shares for investment purposes. They are a holding company. They have funds that people can buy into.

here's one of their websites so you can see what they do

kingsway2000.com or kingswaygroup.com

here is a press release which talks about the astn purchase

biz.yahoo.com

My opinion is still that they are probably doing a hype job on the stock to sell it for profits to their funds, clients... There's no other reason for th eprice to go up. As this company is out of Canada and British Virgin Islands where TK is at, I believe they are probably "friendly."



To: Edscharp who wrote (4366)1/15/2002 11:52:24 PM
From: mst2000  Respond to of 4443
 
Ed: As usual, Mary leaves out numerous pertinent facts about Kingsway and ATG in order to conjure up yet another screwball theory that ends up painting Kingsway as the next villain to taint ATG.

First, Kingsway made the investment in ASTN subsidiary UTTC two years ago (January 2000), as part of the creation of a joint venture with ATG which was intended to be the platform through which eVWAP/iMATCH would be deployed into the Hong Kong and other Asian securities markets. Kingsway did not "buy" ASTN common a month ago with the intent of "boiler-rooming" it, they converted UTTC preferred that they bought 2 years ago, as part of a joint venture investment, into ASTN common (pursuant to the terms of its agreement to buy the UTTC preferred shares that it signed two years ago). If memory services, Kingsway's right to convert arose because UTTC was not IPO'd within a specified time period and Kingsway was entitled to have access to a public market for its interest. The sad part is that ATG's stock price was so low when they converted that they were able to get 18 Million shares for their UTTC preferred. That's why the magnitude of the conversion came as a bit of a surprise to most of us (and to me yet another disappointment). On the other hand, the fact that they traded a preferred stock interest in UTTC (which enjoys a liquidation preference over UTTC common, which is what ATG owns in UTTC) for ATG common at 16 cents a share says something about where they thought ASTN's stock price would go (IMO). But the bottom line is that they are now a "greater than 5%" shareholder (almost 30% at the moment) -- so as Mary knows, they are obligated to file with the SEC any time they sell stock in the company (which, BTW, is also true of Jameson, which holds 6-7% of ASTN common at the moment). Of course, there are no SEC filings yet indicating that they (or Jameson for that matter) have done so (or Mary would certainly have found them and posted them by now). We can't know if they will, and when (and at what price) -- not her, not me, not you, not anybody but them -- but when they do, we will find out about it.

As their SEC filing indicates, Kingsway is acquired ASTN common with intent to hold them for investment purposes, not with intent to turn around immediately and sell them to third parties. As she points out, the owner entity is a holding company. And as several other posters on Yahoo and RB pointed out earlier today, Kingsway is a pretty well known company in Hong Kong -- Mary's statements that they might be a boiler room operation are completely unsupported -- they are nothing less than wild speculation on her part based solely on the fact that they have offices in the British V.I., and that the street where their main offices are located in Hong Kong has a name that is similar to (though by no means the same as) the name of some entity affiliated with TK. They also have humans who work with them, and who sometimes wear suits and ties, the same as TK does . . . there's another connection. Quite the conspiracy. I guess the execution of almost 50,000 shares of ASTN stock at $0.40 between 3:30 and 4:00 today must be getting to her -- she seems to be losing it in her desperation to find an evil explanation for the stock's recent positive performance.

Classic Mary research -- thin, speculative, and distorted. You should look up Kingsway on the internet (you can get there through Google) and you should look at the SEC filings surrounding their original investment in UTTC, when ATG Asia was formed. They tell much more of the story than Mary does in her summary of her theory.

Good luck hunting. Let us know if you find anything we should be concerned about. Take care.

MST