James Cullen has emerged as the major shareholder at new listing Babylon Pump & Power, which is led by Michael Shelby, formerly general manager at Mr Cullen's former company Resource Equipment.
Listed real estate firm Agency Group Australia, formerly Ausnet Financial Services, has acquired three arms of struggling tech company Servtech Global Holdings for less than $1 million, while also announcing a $3 million capital raising.
Junior explorer Walkabout Resources will tap investors for up to $10 million through a placement and rights issue as the company continues exploration at its African projects.
Perth-based gold explorer AIC Resources, chaired by Centamin founder Josef El-Raghy, got off to a solid start in trading today after raising $10 million in its initial public offering.
Junior miners Draig Resources and Capricorn Metals will tap investors in separate capital raisings as both companies advance their respective Western Australian gold projects.
Brisbane-based Firstmac Holdings said today it would not extend its cash takeover offer for Goldfields Money, which has recommended shareholders support an alternative scrip-based merger with mortgage aggregator Finsure.
The board of Kalgoorlie-based bank Goldfields Money has knocked back a fresh takeover bid from Brisbane financial business Firstmac Holdings, which valued the company at $1.27 per share.
Former stockbroker Lewis Fellowes has been sentenced to three years' imprisonment after pleading guilty to three dishonesty charges, but has been spared prison time after entering into a $30,000, five-year good behaviour bond.
Local gold explorers Echo Resources and Kairos Minerals have raised a combined $22 million from investors to fund ongoing work at their respective projects in Western Australia.
ASX-listed financial institution Goldfields Money has received a takeover offer from its largest shareholder, which values the target at about $25 million.
SPECIAL REPORT: Western Australian businesses participated in nearly 200 corporate finance transactions in the September quarter collectively worth $4.8 billion, research by Business News has found.
Six local resources companies have announced capital raisings of around $26 million for projects including in lithium and rare earths, with one of the businesses, Okapi Resources, planning to join the ASX bourse.
Four local mining hopefuls have raised $13.2 million between them for new projects, with Egan Street Resources and Ardea Resources in the two biggest deals.
Local explorers MacPhersons Resources and Venture Minerals have announced plans to raise a combined $6.3 million to fund ongoing work at their respective prospects in the state.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has slapped a five-year ban on a Queensland-based former employee of stockbroking firm Patersons Securities, after he made unauthorised trades on a client account and created false records on two further accounts.
A new Perth-based gold and copper exploration company has closed flat on its first day of trading on the ASX, after completing a $4 million initial public offering.
Draig Resources has a new management team that includes former Gryphon Minerals managing director Stephen Parsons, who will focus on the company's recently acquired Bellevue gold project west of Laverton.
SPECIAL REPORT: There was a big rise in the number and value of completed capital raisings in WA last year, according to data compiled in the BNiQ Search Engine.
Perth-based explorer Bannerman Resources has tapped investors for $4 million to fund an engineering program to help reduce cost estimates at its $US793 million Etango uranium project in Africa.
Perth-based broking firm Patersons Securities is understood to have won a spot on the panel of retail brokers that will support the $2 billion initial public offering of Alinta Energy.
Curtin University is set to benefit from the listing today of ePAT Technologies, which adds to a steady flow of tech companies that have attracted support from investors over the past six months.
Iron ore miner BC Iron has confirmed a $25.5 million capital raising backed by major shareholder Kerry Stokes to fund work at its Buckland project and pay off debt.
SPECIAL REPORT: The stock market's appetite for new listings is allowing a range of companies, from family-owned engineering firm Veem to big national player Alinta Energy, to raise capital.
The share market has ended the week with a fall as markets wait for the latest US jobs data that is likely to influence the timing of an expected US rate hike.
Perth-based gold explorer Breaker Resources has confirmed a $12.4 million capital raising to fund ongoing work at its Lake Roe project near Kalgoorlie.
It was a successful day for participants in the Egan Street Resources initial public offering, with shares in the gold hopeful up 50 per cent on the first day of trading.
The Australian Securities Exchange has delayed the introduction of tougher listing requirements by three months, after stockbrokers and corporate advisers expressed concern about the changes.
Six listed resources companies operating in commodities as diverse as gold, lithium and iron ore have announced a collective $36.9m in capital raisings today.
Local junior miners Prospect Resources, Azumah Resources and Sipa Resources, and Melbourne-based Red River Resources, have today announced a collective $29.8 million worth of capital raisings.
Local explorer Bass Metals has restructured its management team after acquiring a graphite mine in Madagascar and kicking off a $5.5 million capital raising.
Fifteen local broking, legal and advisory firms have teamed up to put forward their concerns with the ASX's proposed changes to its listing requirements, and to advocate three particular amendments.
The Australian dollar gold price hit an all-time record of $1,826 an ounce today after Britain elected to leave the European Union, with shares in local gold miners rallying strongly even though the broader stock market tumbled more than 3 per cent.
Junior miners Azure Minerals, Cazaly Resources, Antipa Minerals and First Graphite have raised a combined $25.1 million to fund ongoing work at their respective projects.
