Saudi sovereign wealth fund PIF and local telecoms company stc Group have formed a joint venture to promote the Internet of Things market in the Middle Eastern state

Dutch regional data centre provider NorthC Group has broken into the Swiss market with the acquisition of Netrics’ Swiss connectivity services and data centres

Nokan Konan has this month joined Keppel Capital as vice president of investments following a nearly 10-year stint at Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec

Italian wireless broadband specialist Linkem Retail and telco Tiscali are to merge following approval from the respective shareholders

Singapore-headquartered Digital Edge has partnered with South Korea-based SK Ecoplant for a 120MW data centre worth $790 million in South Korea

Collimate Capital Investment – formerly AMP Capital – is being broken up and sold with the company’s Australia infrastructure and real estate business going to Australian real estate trust Dexus

US telco Reit SBA Communications has received the green light to develop 1,470 telecoms towers in the country with a total investment value of $206 million during the next 5 years

Vietnamese state-owned telco Viettel is developing a $261 million data centre in Ho Chi Minh City

Simone Chirolli has been working as SMBC’s head of M&A advisory of the structured finance department in Asia Pacific since last week, the bank announced today

US-based infrastructure investor DigitalBridge is to acquire AMP Capital’s international equity business, knocking all other rumoured bidders out of the fray – with sources saying the deal is closing imminently

A European mid-market asset manager has held a €700 million first close on its third infrastructure fund vintage

London-listed infrastructure fund Pantheon Infrastructure, has invested €26.5 million in DELTA Fibre, a digital infrastructure company which owns and operates regional fibre-to-the-home broadband infrastructure in the Netherlands

Tiger Infrastructure Partners’ third flagship fund, Tiger Infrastructure Partners Fund III – has closed at its hard cap with $1.25 billion in equity commitments

The Australian arm of Citi has this week made up Alex Allegos to head of corporate banking in charge of its operations in Australia and New Zealand

London-headquartered John Laing has appointed Robert Newton as a director in its portfolio and risk management team