ESR Group-backed ARA Asset Management has closed the China-ASEAN Investment Cooperation Fund 2 at $1 billion, making it one of the largest ASEAN-focused infrastructure funds

RMB has signed with South African network operator Octotel a $108.8m social loan to fund the latter’s fibre network expansion in the Western Cape

The board of Intermediate Capital Group has named William Rucker as a non-executive director and chair of the company

Global asset manager Blackstone Group has launched 2 sizable hyper-scale data centres in India, with a combined capacity of 600MW

Indonesia telecoms provider Mora Telematika Indonesia has partnered with Japan-based Mitsui & Co for passive infrastructure and other infrastructures related to telecommunications

3i Infrastructure veteran Matt Barker has joined GI Partners in London to drive its digital investment strategy across Europe

Asian Development Bank has awarded a tender for an international consultant to assist in preparing pre-feasibility studies for digital infrastructure projects in Cambodia and Tajikistan

CTI Towers, a North Carolina-based owner and manager of wireless towers, has acquired 180 towers from Uniti Group

DWS has appointed Richard Marshall as head of infrastructure research, a thought leadership role defining global infrastructure market trends

Investment bank Houlihan Lokey has agreed to acquire Oakley Advisory, the advisory firm providing services to clients across digital infrastructure, communications services and cloud landscape

Partners Group has acquired Colorado-based EdgeCore Digital Infrastructure, an owner, operator, and builder of hyperscale data centres

BDx Indonesia – a JV company of Big Data Exchange, PT Indosat Tbk and PT Aplikanusa Lintasarta – is planning a 100MW data centre campus on 12 acres of land acquired from PT Suryacipta Swadaya, a member of Suryainternusa Group

The Competition and Markets Authority has approved Cellnex’s acquisition of the UK telecoms tower assets of CK Hutchison Group following close of its sale of 1,100 UK sites to Wireless Infrastructure Group

Arizona has issued an RFP seeking a private partner to provide operations, maintenance and commercialisation services for its for middle-mile fibre infrastructure