UK antitrust regulator examines Vodafone, Three merger

The UK's antitrust regulator said Wednesday it has begun the examination of the merger of Vodafone and Three UK's telecoms businesses

Green Mountain awaits nod for major Norwegian data centre

Norwegian data centre developer Green Mountain has submitted a planning application to Time Municipality for a $4.5 billion data centre facility in Kalberg, Southwest Norway

DIF adds 2 partners following CVC takeover

DIF Capital Partners, the Dutch infrastructure fund manager, has promoted both Kanan Joshi and Caine Bouwmeester from managing director to partner

Orion closes fund III at $205m

Orion Credit Capital Asia, a Singapore-based private credit investment manager, has closed its third fund at $205 million with institutional investors from Canada, USA and Japan

Kao Data in public consultation for UK data centre

London-based data centre operator Kao Data has opened up public consultations for a proposed £350 million data centre in Manchester

Viettel signs concession contracts for Peruvian 4G

Peru's Ministry of Transportation and Communication and Viettel Peru have signed the sole concession contracts for a 4G upgrade project

AllianzGI launches cross-asset private market strategy

Allianz Global Investors on Monday launched its first cross-asset private markets fund, including infrastructure equity and debt

Antin appoints former Cellnex head as senior adviser

Antin Infrastructure Partners has appointed former Cellnex chief executive Tobias Martinez as senior adviser

Wren House hires former GE Renewables exec as MD

Global infrastructure investment manager Wren House has appointed Anne McEntee as managing director in its New York asset management team

Korea Exim announces 2 appointments

Export-Import Bank of Korea on Wednesday announced 2 appointments – Hwang Ki-yeon as the bank’s executive director and Lee Dong-hoon as the head of Inter-Korean Cooperation

Eight Advisory hires 2 partners, Europe

Eight Advisory has hired Niall O’Dea and Niels Lummen in Europe, bringing the firm's total number of partners to 95

EdgeConneX’s Indo data centre loan attract 4

Four banks have provided EQT Infrastructure-backed data centre company EdgeConneX a $403.8 million sustainability-linked loans for 2 of its hyperscale data centres in Jakarta, Indonesia

EOI out for British council FTTP roll-out

Havering Council is seeking expressions of interest for a gigabit broadband rollout for almost 5,000 council-owned flats

FC for Etix Everywhere's French data centre buy-up

French data centre startup Etix Everywhere has reached financial close on the acquisition of 5 data centres from DataBank in France

Basalt merges UK FTTP operators

London-based infrastructure investment firm Basalt Infrastructure plans to merge 2 of its fibre to the premises portfolio companies