Wisconsin-based Salute Holdings, a service provider for the data centre industry, has received an investment from funds managed by New Mountain Capital

Vertical Bridge has agreed to lease, operate and manage more than 6000 wireless communications from Verizon Communications for $3.3 billion

Vodafone UK and Three continue to back their merger in the light of recent CMA findings which claim the deal could lead to a “substantial lessening of competition"

Guernsey has approved the merger of Bahrain-based telecoms business Batelco – via its subsidiary Sure – with Airtel Vodafone’s Channel Islands business

The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank has introduced AIIB+, a digital platform aimed at matching external concessional and technical resources with its project pipeline

KKR-backed data centre firm CyrusOne has launched plans to build a data centre in Dallas, Texas to serve its clients

Microsoft will invest R$14.7 billion over 3 years into cloud infrastructure in Brazil’s São Paulo state – the firm’s largest investment in the country to date

BlackRock has agreed to invest up to $1 billion per year in project finance, energy finance and infrastructure debt investments through an MoU signed with Banco Santander

Swiss firm SFP Infrastructure Partners has held a close on its first infrastructure fund at €110 million, with final close expected by the end of the year

Citigroup has partnered with Apollo to form a $25 billion private credit direct lending program initially in North America, but expandable to other geographies

The International Finance Corp and 2 other investors are providing up to $400 million to support a telecommunications deal in Pakistan

Valokuitunen, a portfolio company of CapMan, has acquired Telia’s residential fibre network in Finland – the Nordic country’s largest fibre network deal

Manulife Investment Management has raised around $1.25 billion for its third infrastructure fund, according to SEC filings

US alternative investment manager Blackstone will develop a £10 billion AI data centre in Blyth, north-east England