Bouygues Telecom and Vauban Infrastructure Partners are in advanced talks with lenders to arrange a debt package for the recently unveiled Société de Développement de la Fibre Au Service des Territoires FTTH project in France

Telecoms companies MásMóvil and Orange Spain are in negotiations to merge their Spanish interests through a 50-50 JV, valuing the proposed entity at €19.6 billion

Philippines telco Converge ICT has joined the consortium that is developing a submarine cable system connecting Southeast Asia, southern China, and Hong Kong

Singapore government plans to launch a tender for energy-efficient data centre pilot projects by Q2, following a 3-year moratorium on developing new data centres

Engineering consultancy Mott MacDonald has named Mark Enzer as its newest executive adviser

Peruvian president Pedro Castillo has named Nicolás Bustamante as the country’s new minister for transport and communications following the resignation of the previous incumbent last month

DataBank has completed its $670 million acquisition of CyrusOne’s 4 Houston data centres, taking its portfolio to over 65 facilities, the largest edge infrastructure footprint in the country

Eilidh Mactaggart has unexpectedly stepped down from the chief executive role at the Scottish National Investment Bank citing “personal reasons”

Australian asset manager First Sentier Investors has moved up Yoshiki Ueno to deputy chief executive working alongside company CEO Mark Steinberg

The UK Competition and Markets Authority has approved Cellnex Telecom’s acquisition of 6,000 UK towers from CK Hutchison Group following a Phase 2 investigation into the deal

Natixis Australia has promoted M&A veteran Aurelia Vo-Dinh to managing director as a part of the bank’s 2022 global promotions

AIIB management has issued a statement on war in Ukraine

M&G Investments’ infrastructure arm, Infracapital, is to launch a platform dedicated to bridging the digital gap in Austria, to be known as Speed Connect Austria

The World Bank Group member has appointed Lisa Kaestner as the new country manager for Sri Lanka and the Maldives

Norway-based Earth, Wind & Power has tapped Indonesian state-owned oil and gas company Pertamina to study using flare gas to power modular data centres