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
Seed heads to Dar Al Riyadh
Engineering consultancy Dar Al Riyadh Group has appointed John Seed as group director of strategy and development
Cellnex to sell Nordic subsidiary to Stonepeak
Spanish wireless telecoms infrastructure operator Cellnex Telecom has agreed to sell a 49% stake in its Nordic subsidiary to Stonepeak for €730 million
MUFG, Liquidity Group form new equity fund
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group has announced the establishment of a new equity fund worth with the lender committing up to $500 million to the new entity
ADB, Kyrgyzstan partner for PPP growth
The Asian Development Bank has signed an MoU to support the development of public-private partnerships across various sectors in Kyrgyzstan
BNDES fund to up broadband access, Brazil
Brazilian development bank BNDES has pledged to fund projects aimed at universalising broadband access in public schools across Brazil by 2026 through the Telecommunications Services Universalization Fund
Lithuania's Nord Security raises $100m
Lithuanian cyber security company Nord Security has secured $100 million in a funding round – doubling its valuation to $3 billion in a year
GIP backs Vantage Data Centers, US
Global Infrastructure Partners, together with affiliates and co-investors, has invested in a term loan of up to $450 million in Vantage Data Centers, a global data centre solutions provider
Infranode closes MPY Telecom acquisition, Finland
Nordic infrastructure investor Infranode has closed the acquisition of Finnish owner and operator of digital core infrastructure MPY Telecom from MPY Cooperative for €75 million
GDOT hosts forum for broadband OMC project
Georgia Department of Transportation is hosting a virtual industry forum for the statewide broadband network operations, maintenance, and commercialization project