Brazilian development bank BNDES has expanded the credit available to firms developing broadband connectivity projects to R$1.1 billion, with an emphasis on schools in rural and deprived areas across the country

The growing Toronto-based CBRE Investment Management team has been boosted by Nathalie Viens who joined as managing director and head of asset management for the firm’s private infrastructure strategies

New York-based Tillman FiberCo has formed a $500 million strategic partnership with Northleaf Capital Partners

DIF Capital Partners portfolio company Ruhrfibre has reached financial close on a €120 million senior debt facility for the expansion of its German fibre network

Swiss impact investment firm BlueOrchard has held an additional close on its sustainable infrastructure fund BlueOrchard Sustainable Assets Fund, at a $14.6 million hard cap

The City of Greenbelt in Maryland has issued an RFP for a broadband feasibility/engineering study

CIFI Asset Management has closed the first phase of a new debt fund that will target social and environmental infrastructure assets across Latin America and the Caribbean

The Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance and KKR have signed a MoU to co-invest in TIM's fixed line network assets

Airtel is planning to invest $150 million to build 649 new network sites in Kenya as part of its debt-funded expansion across Sub-Saharan Africa

US-based data centre provider Equinix plans to launch its fourth International Business Exchange data centre in Mumbai, India

Two utilities operators have signed an EIB grant agreement to fund an invisible interconnection between Italy and Tunisia in a move towards the first DC electricity connection between Europe and Africa

The City of Merced in California has issued an RFP seeking 1 or more private parties to expand its business and residential broadband access via a P3

Mark Harris has joined the power and infrastructure finance team at Investec, operating out of New York

Emirates Telecommunication Group is to acquire from PPF Group a 50% plus one share in PPF Telecom's assets in Bulgaria, Hungary, Serbia and Slovakia

Deutsche Beteiligungs has invested in critical infrastructure services provider TBD Technische Bau Dienstleistungen via a management buyout