BNP Paribas Asset Management has held a first close on its European Infrastructure Debt Fund II at €300 million

Grain Management has acquired Grupo Conexão – a Brazilian internet service provider – from Acon Investments

Telecommuting company Swoop has agreed to acquire South Australian broadband provider Beam Internet

Data4's newly announced data centre in Poland is expected to have capex in excess of €100 million ($118.7m), with construction slated to begin by the end of the year

An Abu Dhabi Investment Authority subsidiary has acquired a minority stake in Malaysia-headquartered telecom towers operator EdgePoint Infrastructure for $500 million

Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank is now a technical partner of the Global Infrastructure Facility, a G20 initiative

Marguerite II Fund has acquired a 100% interest in Conapto, a Swedish data centre operator

Independent infrastructure and project finance advisory outfit Synergy Consulting has this week launched a new branch in Uzbekistan taking its total number of offices across the globe to 8

French data centre owner and operator Data4 is pushing ahead with its planned expansion in Europe and will open a data centre in Poland

Africa Finance Corporation has appointed to its board of directors Kirstine Damkjaer – the former chief executive of EKF, Denmark’s export credit agency

An Asian-headquartered institutional investor has agreed to allocate capital to an infrastructure secondaries fund

Due to popular demand – and possibly people getting their heads around a whole new set of criteria – we are extending the deadline for submissions to the inaugural IJGlobal ESG Awards