Company
Mercia Asset Management PLC
LON:MERC
Mercia Asset Management PLC is a specialist asset manager focused on supporting regional SMEs to achieve their growth aspirations. The company provides capital across its four asset classes of venture, private equity, debt and proprietary capital: the group's 'Complete Connected Capital'. Mercia initially nurtures businesses via its third-party funds under management, then over time Mercia can provide further funding to the most promising companies, by deploying direct investment follow-on capital from its own balance sheet.
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Investments and investor services
Mercia Asset vows to carry on investing as inflows rise
Organic inflows were £134mln in the year to March just ended
Mercia Asset buoyed by SME loan specialist acquisition
The acquisition boosts Mercia's lending arm to £531mln under management
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Small Cap Wrap - Trakm8 Holdings, SEEEN, Mercia Asset Management and more...
Mercia Asset Management 37p £162.8m (LON:MERC) Mercia Asset Management PLC (AIM: MERC), the proactive, regionally focused specialist asset manager with c.£940m of assets under management notes that its direct portfolio company Soccer Manage
Mercia Asset Management invests to take Football Manager to the next level
Football Manager is run by Andy and Chris Gore, and executive chairman Nick Wheelwright, the former CEO of Codemasters and Monumental Games
Mercia Asset Management aims to inject capital into under-served UK regions
CEO Dr Mark Payton said the specialist asset manager has “a suite of funds” including EIS, venture capital trusts and institutional capital across venture, private equity and debt on a regional and national basis
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Small cap movers: ASOS considers taking a leaf out of Deutsche Bank’s book as it mulls job cuts
A look back at some of this week's more interesting stories from London's junior market
Investments and investor services
FTSE 100 closes a tad lower as traders are not sure which way to jump
The UK's premier share index finished nearly four points lower at 7,549
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Barratt Developments and Bovis Homes to provide main building bricks in coming week
Aside from the two housebuilders, corporate updates in the coming week will also be delivered by retailers Ocado, Superdry and Dunelm
Concepta raises £2.3mln to help fund international launches of MyLotus
MyLotus was recently launched in the UK and Concepta now wants to launch the fertility testing kit in international territories
Concepta jumps as it inks deal to sell myLotus in Boots' chemists
The healthcare firm said the agreement with Walgreens Boots Alliance would allow it to supply Boots stores in the UK as well as other partners across EU markets
FTSE 100 closes in red as ongoing trade standoff scares investors
The UK blue chip benchmark shed almost 90 points to finish the day at 7,547.
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Housebuilders and retailers take centre stage as slew of firms release latest results
The week ahead will see quarterly results from Sainsbury's and AB Foods, trading updates from Bovis Homes and Persimmon, and full year earnings from SuperDry
Hardware & electrical equipment
F1 partners with Mercia Tech's VirtTrade for digital cards platform
VirtTrade offers F1 a new and alternative take on presenting our mix of content
Hardware & electrical equipment
Opportunities knock in the Midlands and North, says Mercia Tech
Mercia has quietly established itself as the funder of choice for early-stage businesses in the Midlands, the North and now Scotland as well
FTSE 100 closes in positive territory, bolstered by weak pound
Footsie closed over 20 points higher at 7,348, benefitting as usual from the weaker pound.
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Stagecoach interims on track for Wednesday, plus latest update from luxury firm Mulberry
Day Ahead includes first half results from transport operator Stagecoach Group PLC and full year numbers from luxury handbags firm Mulberry PLC
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US jobs to dominate with December rate hike expected, plus updates from Stagecoach, Berkeley Group
The Week Ahead diary includes the December US jobs data, plus corporate updates from Stagecoach PLC, Ferguson PLC, IG Group PLC, and Berkeley Group PLC
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Argos to put some zip into J Sainsbury
Week ahead, J Sainsbury, Non-farm payrolls, Ocado, Imagination Technologies
Hardware & electrical equipment
Mercia Technology ups investment in virtual reality game developer
nDreams game The Assembly was just launched on Sony's new Playstation VR platform, and is already available on other virtual reality consoles.
AstraZeneca a highlight for a busy City schedule for Thursday
AstraZeneca, Vedanta, Halfords, and SuperGroup were among those in Thursday's diary.
Week Ahead: US election takes centre stage
Aside from the election, several UK retailers have results due next week
Risers & Fallers: Mercia Technologies, McCarthy & Stone, Vast Resources...
London's largest share price rises and falls at 4pm
Risers & Fallers: Ascent Resources, Hummingbird, Mkango ...
The European oil and gas exploration and production company Ascent lived up to its name as resolutions 1 to 3 were duly passed at today’s AGM.
Hardware & electrical equipment
Mercia Technologies busy stage-front and behind the scenes
Despite the name, Mercia invests well beyond the boundaries of the former Saxon kingdom.
Thursday's agenda: ECB tipped to cut interest rates
Analysts expect the European Central Bank (ECB) to cut the eurozone's cost of borrowing
Week ahead: OPEC unlikely to offer much relief
Next week, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) will meet.
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Proactive news summary: 88 Energy, Egdon Res, Europa Oil & Gas, Falcon Oil & Gas, Galasys, IMIC ...
Lots of positive news from the oil sector today from places as far afield as Morocco, Alaska and ... er ... Lincolnshire.
Most followed: Retail sales, the Great British Bank-off and the quality of Mercia
Spend! Spend! Spend! Retail sales surged in September. Time to up that overdraft limit ...
Hardware & electrical equipment
Mercia ploughs another £1.2mln into antenna designer
It has stumped up £1.2mln of the £1.5mln being sought in the latest funding round by Smart Antenna Technologies, or SAT for short.
Hardware & electrical equipment
Mercia Technologies reveals profit in maiden results
Mercia Technologies believes there are plenty of commercially exciting technology companies operating outside London,
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FTSE100 ends higher as new Greek proposal creates optimism
Investors looked to a brighter future for Greece as its PM Alexis Tsipras submitted a new austerity plan.
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FTSE 100 set to add to yesterday's strong gains
With hopes of a Greek bailout deal rising, the top-share index is set to build on yesterday's gains
Week Ahead: House builders to provide clarity after conflicting signals
We had conflicting messages from the housing sector last week, so trading updates from Bovis, Barratt and Taylor Wimpey might provide more clarity.