Azalea Investment Management, the Singapore-based fund manager ultimately owned by Temasek, has announced first closing of 2 funds at $356 million

Africa50 has achieved first close for the Infrastructure Acceleration Fund, securing $222.5 million in commitments

DigitalBridge and Silver Lake have led a $6.4 billion equity investment in Vantage Data Centers

Partners Group has promoted 2 of its senior employees – Esther Peiner and David Daum – to head of infrastructure and head of European infrastructure respectively, based in Zug, Switzerland

Dutch bank ABN Amro has appointed Tanja Kramer as head of its Sustainable Impact Fund based at the firm’s offices in Amsterdam

Infranity – the infrastructure asset management subsidiary of Italy-based Generali Investments – has launched the fourth iteration of its investment strategy focusing on senior infrastructure debt, with a €1.5 billion target size

abrdn has made a strategic investment in NGE Fibre, a French fibre provider

Urjit R. Patel, former Reserve Bank of India governor and vice president for investment operations for Region 1 at Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank has decided to leave the multilateral due to family health matters

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres has priced a $338 million sustainability-linked perpetual bond offering

Wire 3, an emerging fiber-to-the-home provider, has been acquired by Oak Hill Capital from Gugghenheim Investments

HSBC Asset Management plans to launch an investment vehicle focusing on energy transition infrastructure debt in 2024, IJGlobal understands

DigitalBridge has appointed Ersin Yorulmaz as co-head of European capital formation at its Zurich office

A Cordiant Digital portfolio company, České Radiokomunikace, has completed the acquisition of Cloud4com and DC Lužice following acceptance from regulatory approvals and corporate requirements

EQT Infrastructure has partnered with data centre provider EdgeConneX to develop and operate data centres for hyperscale customers on a global scale, following its acquisition of EdgeConneX in 2020

HSBC Asset Management has appointed Michael Cross as the chief investment officer for Asia, effective immediately