While the bulk of the global winners were announced at the IJGlobal Awards 2021 at The Londoner in Leicester Square on 16 March, the final winner was broadcasted just one day later at Gotham Hall in New York

Slovenian telco Iskratel has announced plans to deliver FTTH connection to underserved regions in the UK through a newly established offshoot

Digital infrastructure company Edgnex is to build a 20MW data centre in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, with plans for it to go live in Q3 2023

The International Finance Corporation has partnered with microfinance institution KixiCrédito to help the latter boost the delivery of digital financial services across Angola

KKR and Global Infrastructure Partners have closed their acquisition of global data centre REIT CyrusOne in an all-cash transaction valued at $15 billion

Netherlands-based data centre company Yondr Group has entered the Malaysian market with a 200MW hyperscale data centre in southern Malaysia

Enterprise 5G company Celona has closed an oversubscribed $60 million Series C financing round led by DigitalBridge Ventures, the venture capital initiative of DigitalBridge Group

Global infrastructure fund Pantheon Infrastructure has invested in the take-private of data centre operator CyrusOne through a KKR-affiliated investment vehicle

TIM Group is still considering KKR's indicative and non-binding expression of interest to buy the Italian telco, the company said today

The European Investment Bank has signed a €150 million loan with Telecom Egypt to expand the latter’s 4G network

Global alternative asset manager Intermediate Capital Group has completed fundraising for its debut Infrastructure fund, ICG Infrastructure Equity 1

HSBC Asset Management has extracted AMP’s established listed infrastructure equity team in order to launch its own listed fund

Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank has set up a blended financing facility to provide affordable pricing to support less developed members with infrastructure projects

French telecoms giant Orange will from Monday transition its national business under its Orange Romania brand, following its acquisition last September of a 54% controlling stake in the fixed line operations of Telekom Romania Communications

Mechelen-based Telenet has agreed to sell its mobile telecommunications tower business to DigitalBridge Investment in an all cash deal valued at €745 million