Ardian Infrastructure has promoted Federica Vasquez to managing director in its Milan office

The USTDA has signed a grant to local internet service provider GBS to support a rural internet access expansion project in the DRC

Pan-European edge data centre provider AtlasEdge is set to acquire Germany’s independent data centre provider, Datacenter One, for an undisclosed sum

A consortium led by KKR is set to acquire a 30% stake in Telenor's newly established passive fibre infrastructure company, Telenor Fiber, in Norway

John Laing has strengthened its US & Canada teams with the hiring of Kara Vague and Richard Kim as director and associate director respectively

US-based data centre company EdgeConneX has partnered with Aboitiz InfraCapital and is planning to build a network of hyperscale data centres across the Philippines

Foresight Group is set to invest in full fibre technology business Fibre & Wireless Networks – with a deal expected imminently, IJGlobal understands

Digital infrastructure company Equinix has announced plans to set up a $74 million international business exchange data centre in Jakarta, Indonesia

Antin Infrastructure Partners’ fifth flagship fund has held first close, raising more than €5 billion to invest in infrastructure opportunities

Infracapital, the equity investment arm of M&G, has secured an €895 million debt facility from 4 commercial lenders to fund its fibre roll-out in rural Germany

NIBC Infrastructure Partners – lead arranger for the short-term loan facilities for Open Dutch Fiber’s fibre-to-the-premises roll-out – will increase the financing of the business

A limited partner has passed a milestone to allocate capital to a debt fund in Asia targeting to raise $750 million

TriStruX – Huron Capital’s Infrastructure Services Platform – is set to acquire fibre specialist Hess Broadband

Bahrain-based telecoms business Batelco – via its subsidiary Sure – will incorporate Channel Islands-based mobile network provider Airtel-Vodafone into its offering

UK-based Mace Group has expanded its data centre market in the Asia Pacific by appointing Chris Wallace as the head of data centres and critical facilities