Smarter Web Company (LON: SWC) has raised a further £6.83m at 49p/share. It has purchased a further 39.51 Bitcoin for £3.13m. The total holding is 58.71 Bitcoin at a total cost of £4.54m. The additional funds will be used to buy more Bitcoin. The share price jumped 123% to 69p.
Coinsilium Group Ltd (LON: COIN) subsidiary Forza! will be transferred an initial 15 Bitcoin. Coinsilium will announce purchase of Bitcoin by Forza! Institutional investors are interested in investing in Forza! The Coinsilium share price improved 18.9% to 5.35p.
Res Privata NV has raised its stake in WeCap (LON: WCAP) from 11.3% to 13.6%, while Peel Hunt has a higher shareholding of 19%. The share price rose 11.6% to 0.96p.
Newbury Racecourse (LON: NYR) director James Richardson bought 2,878 shares a 625p each and his total shareholding is 5,515 shares. The share price increased 10.6% to 625p.
Global Connectivity (LON: GCON) says that the value of its 2.8% stake in Rural Broadband Services has fallen to £3.9m, which is equivalent to 1.3p/share. The share price is 9.09% higher at 1.2p.
Mendell Heloum (LON: MDH) has an option to acquire M3 Helium, which is continuing work on the Rost 1-26 well recompletion project. The share price improved 9.09% to 3p.
Arbuthnot Banking Group (LON: ARBB) stated at the AGM that trading was in line with expectations in the first four months of the year. Activity is showing signs of picking up. There were loan and lease assts of £2.36bn at the end of April 2025. Deposits rose 3% to £4.26bn. There was an annualised 17% increase in assets under management in the wealth management division. Shore Capital forecasts a dip in full year pre-tax profit from £35.1m to £28.5m. That assumes a further 0.25 of a percentage point cut in interest rates. The share price edged up 2.72% to 942.5p.
FALLERS
Dermatology treatments developer Incanthera (LON: INC) is finalising an agreement with a global direct to consumer and it will launch the Skin + CELL product range in return for royalties on sales. There are 100,000 units in stock ready for sale, and they should be sold by March 2026. This will improve gross margins and provide positive cash flow. The share price dipped 9.09% to 5p.
Valereum (LON: VLRM) is investing $1.35m in DigiShares in four tranches up until July. DigiShares owns a real estate tokenisation platform called RealEstate Exchange. The share price fell 5.37% to 4.85p.