Macquarie Asset Management has strengthened its infrastructure and investment grade private credit leadership team with the appointment of Tom van Rijsewijk and Sophia Alison as co-heads of Europe

Nigerian digital infrastructure company Pan African Towers will receive investment from Development Partners International and Verod Capital to fuel its growth and embark on the next phase of its strategy

D9 has agreed to sell its entire stake in data centre provider, Verne Global, to Ardian for $575 million

InfraVia Capital Partners and PSG Equity have invested €40 million in One Click LCA, a decarbonisation platform for construction and manufacturing, to fund operations, expansion and M&A

DigitalBridge’s digital infrastructure credit fund has reached close at $1.1 billion in commitments, including co-investment capital

Dito Telecommunity, the Philippines’ newest mobile network operator, has secured a loan worth some $3.9 billion from a bank syndicate led by Bank of China and ING, who acted as initial mandated lead arrangers. The loan spans 15 years, making it the largest long-term debt arranged by multinational banks for a Philippine company

The European Commission has endorsed a preliminary assessment of Slovenia’s request for €231 million of grants and €310 million in loans through the EU's Recovery and Resilience Facility

The European Commission has endorsed Italy’s now €194.4 billion recovery and resilience facility plan covering 66 reforms and 150 investments across energy and infrastructure

Aware Super has pledged $6.61 billion to the UK investment office as part of the pension scheme’s plans to grow its portfolio to $164.52 billion of assets under management

IFM Investors will invest £10 billion into UK infrastructure and energy projects up to 2027 under an MoU with the UK Government

Z Capital Group and the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority have created a strategic partnership to establish a fund focused on investments in African infrastructure

The Arab Coordination Group plans to allocate $50 billion to support the build-out of infrastructure across Africa

Central European telco Yettel has flicked the switch on Hungary’s first standalone 5G network for consumers

Hong Kong-listed Shandong Hi-Speed Holdings Group has agreed to acquire a 42.1% stake in Chinese data centre operator VNet for a cash consideration of $299 million

Brazil’s Scala Data Centers – a subsidiary of DigitalBridge – has issued green debentures worth $215 million to fund the construction of data centres in Brazil