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Proactive news snapshot: Wishbone Gold, SIMEC Atlantis Energy, Corero Network Security …

Published: 10:20 19 Dec 2018 EST

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Wishbone Gold PLC (LON:WSBN) saw its shares soar higher on Wednesday after the firm revealed that its Honduran partners, Sion Honduras SA has received a license to operate the plant and equipment on the first Honduran mining and processing site under the joint venture announced on 31 March 2017.

SIMEC Atlantis Energy Ltd (LON:SAE) has completed the redeployment of two turbines at the MeyGen tidal energy project in Scotland along with the sale of its 50% stake in a Canadian joint venture.

Corero Network Security PLC (LON:CNS) has secured orders from three customers for its security services and technology totalling over US$1mln.

FairFX Group Plc (LON:FFX) shares surged in early trading Wednesday as it was poised to enter the US market after entering an agreement with New York-based Metropolitan Commercial Bank to provide payments services to its customers.

StatPro Group PLC (LON:SOG) has inked a three-year contract with a large European insurance group for its Revolution Delta service.

Amryt Pharma PLC (LON:AMYT) said it has opened the first US site for its global AP101 EASE Phase III clinical trial being conducted in patients with rare skin condition Epidermolysis Bullosa. The AIM-listed company also said it has received notification that the Independent Data Monitoring Committee is scheduled to meet on 21 December to review the EASE data.

Gold miner Scotgold Resources Ltd (LON:SGZ) is to break ground on the Cononish mine in the Trossachs National Park following completion of all permitting conditions. First gold production is planned for the end of 2019.

Faron Pharmaceuticals Ltd (LON:FARN) has gone some way to understanding why its phase III clinical trial on patients with a condition called acute respiratory distress syndrome didn’t yield the anticipated results. It said its pharmacokinetic/dynamic study showed that way it formulated its interferon-beta drug Traumakine was not an issue.

Silence Therapeutics PLC (LON:SLN) has added a new siRNA (short interfering RNA) asset to its pre-clinical pipeline for the potential treatment of cardiovascular disease.

KR1 Plc (LON:KR1) has raised a total of £785,000, before expenses, through a share placing to allow it to boost its investments in the blockchain token community. The blockchain and cryptocurrency investor said the placing of 15,700,000 ordinary shares was undertaken at a price of 5p per share by Peterhouse Capital.

FFI Holdings Plc (LON:FFI) lowered its full year profit expectations after a below par performance in its core film insurance business. While the number of completion contracts signed rose in the half year to September, they were lower budget productions and fees fell.

Brady Plc (LON:BRY) has appointed a new chief executive (CEO) while its executive chairman will switch into a non-executive role.

Alba Mineral Resources PLC (LON:ALBA) told investors on Wednesday that a commercial flow test programme has started as its part-owned production licence 235 at the Brockham Oil field.

United Oil & Gas Plc (LON:UOG) said that the jack-up drilling unit contracted to drill its Colter appraisal well has mobilised to the final prospect before Colter. In an update, the exploration firm said the Ensco 72 drilling unit had been mobilised to the Wick prospect drilling location.

Red Rock Resources PLC (LON:RRR) has noted the latest update from Jupiter Mines, which owns 49.9% of the Tshipi manganese mine in South Africa. As long as the manganese price stays robust, Tshipi intends to pay R1bn (£55mln) in a final dividend of which Jupiter intends to distribute close to all of its share.

MaxCyte PLC (LON: MXCT), the global cell-based medicines and life sciences company said it has appointed CohnReznick LLP - which ranks among the largest accounting, tax and business advisory firms in the United States - as the company's independent auditor for the financial year ended 31 December 2018.

Pan African Resources plc (LON:PAF) announced that PricewaterhouseCoopers has been appointed as the company’s external auditor, effective 7 December 2018, replacing Deloitte and Touche following the completion of a competitive tender process.

APQ Global Limited (LON:APQ), the emerging markets growth company said that, as at the close of business on 30 November 2018, its unaudited book value per ordinary share was 99.43 US cents, equivalent to 77.93p. The company also announced that it has issued a total of 79,735 ordinary shares to employees of the company as part of a management share-based compensation scheme, including its chief executive officer, Bart Turtelboom, who has received 70,097 ordinary shares. It added that, following that share issue, Turtelboom is interested in 22,075,097 ordinary shares, representing 28.25% of the company's issued share capital.

The Marketing Group PLC (NASDAQ OMX:TMG), which trades as RYVL, said the unconditional share placing announced on 6 December linked to its acquisition of Blockchain Nordic has been completed.

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