Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation and financial advisory firm LarrainVial have closed a $200 million Colombia-focused debt fund

Future Fiber has made its debut debt to deliver roll-out open-access fiber-to-the-home networks across the US

Global real estate investment bank Eastdil Secured has hired Rob Walters as managing director, based in the firm’s Washington DC office

Credit Agricole CIB has hired Henry Manson as director within its infrastructure coverage team in London under managing director Mike Nowak

Colombian telecoms firm Colombia Móvil has secured a Ps197.4 billion loan from IDB Invest

Polish telecoms operator Emitel has secured a PLN 1.57 billion refinancing loan from a consortium of lenders

The EU has launched the EU-LAC Global Gateway Investment Agenda, pledging to invest over €45 billion in the region until 2027

Asset manager EQT held a first close on its flagship infrastructure equity fund last week a €11 billion

Established infrastructure banker Geoff Smith has joined Stout UK as London-based managing director and head of debt advisory, joining from the UK Infrastructure Bank which he exited at the end of June

Christopher Ang has taken over an expanded role as group head for infrastructure and project finance at UOB

Australia’s Aware Super has decided to invest up to $500 million in Switch, a 100% renewable-powered data centre platform backed by a DigitalBridge-managed investment entity

The flagship equity fund of an infrastructure manager has deployed more than 30% of the capital it raised at final close last year across 6 deals

Financing details of KKR and Entel’s acquisition of 64% of wholesale fibre optic company PangeaCo – a Peruvian subsidiary of Telefónica Hispanoamérica – have emerged

Lenders are processing a jumbo $3.1 billion sustainability-linked syndicated senior debt facility for Macquarie and Public Sector Pension Investment Board-owned data centre operator AirTrunk