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Matrix Private Equity has completed its fourth investment of the year, financing the £5 million secondary management buyout of retail signage specialist Blaze Neon. Producing external and internal signs for a plethora of leading high-street names – including Argos, Tesco and Royal Bank of Scotland.

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John Sword has returned to the stock market firing line, having successfully pulled in £57 million of new money, at 148p, for engineered steel products play Acertec. Sword is chief executive of the company, which was formed in 1999 to take Hall Engineering private.

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On the back of the successful BBC television series The Apprentice, training group learndirect business is launching a new training programme aimed at growing firms.

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Debts.co.uk is looking for a £34 million flotation on AIM in early June in order to tap into the worrying growth in personal insolvencies.

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Special situations private equity house Rutland has realised a £44.5 million return on its investment in pawnbroking business H&T, as a result of the company’s £54.2 million AIM float this morning. This represents a 2.9 times return on investment inside of two years.

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Venture capital investor The Capital Fund has directed £250,000 towards the development of a revolutionary low-cost medical pump, developed by PDD Innovations.