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

Australian superannuation fund, Rest, has committed a $656 million infrastructure investment to Quinbrook, a renewable energy focused investment manager as part of their support for Australia's energy transition

Colorado-based global fibre communications group Zayo Group has acquired German fibre infrastructure and network services platform Globalways for an undisclosed sum

Spanish investment firm Bestinver has confirmed plans to launch a second infrastructure fund in Q1 2024, targeting €450 million in investment

Altice France and Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners have entered into an exclusivity agreement to establish what will be the first French "independent distributed colocation provider", through MSIP acquiring a 70% majority stake in datacentre company UltraEdge

South African telecoms company Telkom has entered into exclusive preferred bidder negotiations for the sale of its 6,200 communication towers portfolio, Swiftnet, with a consortium of equity investors