Hercules Plc (LON:HERC) CEO Brusk Korkmaz and CFO Paul Wheatcroft reveal how the company is tackling the UK's construction skills shortage head-on. With its Hercules Academy set to train 2,000 workers in 2025, this interview uncovers the strategy behind its rapid growth, expansion into prisons and women's programmes, and why clients are turning to Hercules not just for labour, but for solutions.
Company Summary
Hercules Plc is a UK-based, technology-enabled labour supply company focused on the infrastructure and construction sectors.
#Hercules #Recruitment #Dividends #Investing #HerculesAcademy #Construction #ConstructionSkills
Firering Strategic Minerals (LON:FRG) has secured a $1 million settlement following Ricca’s exit from their joint venture, bringing timely funding and fresh momentum as lithium sentiment starts to recover. Non-Executive Director Vassilios Carellas outlines what this means for their assets in the Ivory Coast, how it positions Firering for future deals, and why the timing could attract third-party interest. This interview breaks down how the company plans to use the funds, their increasing stake in Limeco, and the next steps following Ricca’s asset sale to Skylark Minerals.
Company Overview
Firering Strategic Minerals is focused on developing critical mineral assets in West Africa, with interests in lithium, tantalum, and niobium through licences in Côte d’Ivoire.
In this interview, Avation plc (LON:AVAP) Executive Chairman Jeff Chatfield shares how the company secured a $300 million bond refinancing package and why it positions them more strongly going forward. He also discusses recent credit rating upgrades, a standout 16-year widebody lease extension, and the company’s growth plans with narrowbody aircraft and turboprops. This conversation offers a direct look at how Avation is managing capital, scaling its fleet and navigating a supply-starved aviation sector.What the Company Does:
Avation plc is a commercial passenger aircraft leasing company, owning a fleet of aircraft leased to airlines across the world.
Private equity specialist ICG Enterprise Trust is showing solid returns and margin expansion, despite broader market challenges. In this interview, Hardman & Co analyst Mark Thomas outlines why the trust’s latest report, titled Mid-Teen Zipper EBITDA Growth and Long-Term Returns, suggests steady momentum across its portfolio. With 15% EBITDA growth, widening margins, and realisations already exceeding the previous year, investors may want to revisit assumptions about the private equity sector in today’s climate.
The discussion also highlights the impact of rising rates, realisation timing, and how secondary investments are improving NAV visibility. With second quarter performance significantly ahead of the first and a balanced capital return strategy in place, the trust appears well-positioned going forward.
ICG Enterprise Trust is a listed private equity investor focused on delivering long-term value by investing selectively in private companies, primarily across the US and Europe.
Record plc (LON:REC) CEO Dr Jan Hendrik Witte reveals how the firm is using its scale and agility to expand beyond FX risk management into infrastructure, emerging markets debt, and credit. With over $110 billion in AUM and $1 trillion in annual trading volume, Witte explains how Record’s evolution is not just a diversification play but a deliberate strategy aimed at significantly increasing market value.Record plc is a specialist currency and asset manager focused on delivering tailored solutions for large institutional investors. The firm provides FX hedging, absolute return strategies, and now broader private market investment vehicles including infrastructure equity and EM local debt.
Cizzle Biotechnology (LON:CIZ) has taken a critical step toward getting its early lung cancer blood test into UK hospitals, signing a letter of intent with a major diagnostics partner working alongside the NHS. In this interview, Executive Chairman Dr Allan Syms outlines how this move supports the NHS’s early detection strategy, complements their active US licensing model, and accelerates the test’s return to the UK — where the underlying science was first developed.
Cizzle Biotechnology is a UK-based diagnostics developer focused on early-stage cancer detection through its proprietary CIZ1B blood test.#CizzleBiotech #LungCancer #CancerDetection #HealthTech #NHS #BiotechStocks #AIMstocks #CIZ1B #UKhealthcare
Is Great Western Mining (LON:GWMO) sitting on a multi-metal jackpot?
Executive Chairman Brian Hall shares the significance of newly released soil sampling results that reveal a potential copper-tungsten system spanning nearly 3 km across the Huntoon project in Nevada. With two defined zones, a copper porphyry on one side and a copper-tungsten scarn on the other, now showing signs of connectivity, the company may be unlocking a previously overlooked mineral-rich corridor. In this update, Hall outlines what’s next, including lab results, trenching, gravity surveys, and why interest from major players is suddenly heating up.
Great Western Mining Corporation is a precious metals and base metals exploration company focused on projects in Nevada, USA.
One Health Group’s (LON:OHGR) latest trading update highlights double-digit growth and a clear roadmap for expansion. Chairman Derek Bickerstaff shares how the independent provider of NHS-funded surgical procedures continues to scale patient referrals, surgeon numbers, and operating capacity, all while developing its first surgical hub to further boost revenue and efficiency. Investors will want to hear why he believes the group’s model fits squarely within government priorities and why they “look forward with confidence.”
About One Health Group:
One Health Group provides NHS-funded elective surgical services across orthopaedics, spinal, general, gynaecology and urology. Working with over 80 surgeons across 40 community clinics in the North and Midlands, it delivers efficient, patient-centred care while tackling NHS waiting lists.
After a major AWS outage exposed the fragility of even the world’s biggest cloud infrastructures, Verge Technologies President and CEO Jimmy Jobe explains how their AI-driven platform and flagship product SentientDB, is helping enterprises move from accidental multi-cloud to intelligent cloud convergence. In this interview, Jobe outlines how Verge is redefining resilience with secure, autonomous, and self-healing database management that turns downtime into a relic of the past.
Verge Technologies is a database platform-as-a-service company delivering zero-downtime database management for global enterprises. Its flagship product, SentientDB, provides intelligent, AI-based data mobility and workload management across cloud environments, enabling seamless, autonomous, and self-healing operations.
#VergeTechnologies #SentientDB #CloudComputing #AIMobility #DataResilience #MultiCloud #SelfHealingIT #DigitalTransformation #DatabaseInnovation
Gattaca Plc (LON:GATC) CEO Matthew Wragg lays out a confident and highly focused vision following full-year 2025 results. With profits up 13% despite macroeconomic headwinds, Wragg reveals how AI and automation through Project TWICE AS is already boosting productivity, and why infrastructure, energy and defence are Gattaca’s strategic centre of gravity. Investors will want to hear how recent acquisitions, consolidated branding, and a razor-sharp external focus could set the company up for accelerated growth into FY26.Gattaca plc is a specialist staffing business focused on the engineering and technology sectors.
Ilika plc (LON:IKA) has hit a crucial milestone with the successful commissioning of its Goliath solid-state battery pilot line. In this video interview, CEO Graeme Purdy outlines why this final assembly capability is a vital step toward commercial licensing, what the pilot facility can produce, and how Ilika plans to scale with partners. This update marks a shift from proof of concept to real industrial engagement, and investors will want to hear what that means next.
Ilika plc is a UK-based pioneer in solid-state battery technology, targeting high-performance applications with a licensing-led model.
Volta Finance gives everyday investors access to outperforming private credit via CLOs — a space usually reserved for institutions. Analyst Mark Thomas breaks down the structural advantages, income strategy and manager performance behind the Hardman & Co report: “Liquid Access to Outperforming Private Credit”.
Thor Energy Plc (LON:THR) in a bold series of moves, has offloaded legacy assets and struck innovative agreements that unlock nearly A$9 million in value — all while sharpening its focus on natural hydrogen and helium. CEO Andrew Hume breaks down the transformation: from the divestment of Molyhil to TIVAN, to a uranium tailings deal with DISA, and a 75% sale of its U.S. uranium-vanadium portfolio to MetalsOne. This is a rare case where clean exits, forward funding, and environmental upside collide — leaving Thor lean, funded, and laser-focused on high-impact exploration across South Australia.
Big news from Ferro-Alloy Resources Limited. Their feasibility study confirms Phase 1 of the Balasausqandiq vanadium project is in the lowest 10% of global cost producers — at just $0.36/lb. But that’s just the start. CEO Nick Bridgen reveals how process optimisations, a second carbon black substitute from mining waste, and plans for Phase 2 expansion (up to 4x production) position the company as a future leader in critical battery and industrial materials. One to watch.Ferro-Alloy Resources Ltd is developing the Balasausqandiq vanadium deposit in Kazakhstan, aiming to become a leading low-cost producer of vanadium and carbon black substitute products for global industrial and battery storage markets.
As Great Western Mining Corporation (LON:GWMO) kicks off its most ambitious drilling campaign in years, Executive Chairman Brian Hall shares how early drilling at West Huntoon is already shaping the copper narrative. Investors will be watching closely as the company tests long-held geological theories with a six-hole programme that could lay the groundwork for a world-class copper play. With maiden drilling at Rhyolite Dome on deck and critical mineral potential emerging at Pine Crown and Defender, the company’s exploration pipeline is heating up fast.Great Western Mining Corporation PLC is a precious metals exploration and development company focused on projects in Nevada’s Walker Lane Belt, USA.
Ampeak Energy (LON:AMP) has just hit a major milestone that could change the shape of the UK’s energy storage future. In this interview, Chief Operating Officer David Taaffe outlines how the company has secured financial close for its flagship battery project AW1, a move that not only propels Ampeak’s Uskmouth Sustainable Energy Park forward, but unlocks a potential £100 million annual revenue stream across its broader portfolio. This is the clearest signal yet that Ampeak is charging ahead to become a heavyweight in the battery storage market.Ampeak Energy is a UK-based independent power producer (IPP) focused on large-scale sustainable energy infrastructure. Its core strategy centres around battery energy storage systems (BESS), with a multi-gigawatt pipeline across key UK locations.
Gervais Williams, Fund Manager at Premier Miton Investors shares why The Diverse Income Trust plc (LON:DIVI) is outperforming the FTSE, AIM and even US indices, and what’s fuelling its latest surge. In this revealing interview, he breaks down the sector bets that are working, from surging gold miners to overlooked US gas players like Diversified Energy, plus why he’s backing Victorian Plumbing’s bold turnaround and seeing tech-style upside in CMC Markets.
He also flags hidden value in Record plc, as currency volatility returns, and highlights copper supply shocks that could supercharge Atalaya Mining. Watch for the insight, and the income.
Fresh off the release of interim results, Strix Group (LON:KETL) CEO Mark Bartlett gives a sharp breakdown of how the business is performing across each division. Billi is already delivering double-digit growth, consumer goods are back in expansion mode, and a debt reduction plan is underway. With new product launches showcased at the Canton Fair and financial calendar changes to improve forecasting, investors have a clear window into a business that’s turning operational progress into financial upside.Strix Group is a global leader in kettle safety controls, water filtration and appliance components — with technology used over 1.1 billion times per day in more than 100 countries. Based on the Isle of Man, it holds 300+ active patents and supplies major global appliance brands.
Boku Inc. (LON:BOKU) CEO Stuart Neal returns with a standout set of interim results, showcasing sharp double-digit growth and a strategic edge that’s fuelling demand from global tech giants. With mobile wallets booming and a surge in bundling revenue, Neal hints at what’s powering the momentum, and why investors should keep a close eye on October’s Capital Markets Day.
About Boku Inc.:
Boku Inc. is a mobile payments company that enables businesses to accept online payments through direct carrier billing, mobile wallets, and local payment methods across the globe.
Manx Financial Group’s (LON:MFX) first-half results for 2025 are in and they’ve beat expectations. In a conversation with Group Financial Director James Smeed, we get a clear view of what's powering the company’s sharp uptick in profitability: a strategic focus on efficiency, a surging loan book, and a fintech partnership that could reshape how the group serves its growing customer base. With Payment Assist and Conister Bank both hitting major milestones, and a high-margin overdraft product launching via new partner Fiinu, this interview looks at the moving parts behind a record-breaking performance, and what’s coming next.
Company Summary:
Manx Financial Group Plc is a diversified financial services business headquartered in the Isle of Man. Its subsidiaries include includes Conister Bank Limited, Conister Finance & Leasing Ltd, MFX Limited, Payment Assist Limited, Blue Star Business Solutions Limited, Edgewater Associates Limited, Ninkasi Rentals & Finance Limited and The Business Lending Exchange Limited.