iCON hires head of debt finance

iCON Infrastructure has hired Simon Casey as head of infrastructure debt finance based out of London

IJGlobal Awards 2022 – Europe & Africa winners

The great and the good of the regional infrastructure finance community gathered last night in the Sheraton Grand London in Park Lane to celebrate IJGlobal Awards 2022 for Europe and Africa

CalPERS backs GIP coinvestment with $200m

California Public Employees Retirement System has made a $198.5 million allocation to an infrastructure co-investment vehicle offered by Global Infrastructure Partners, meeting documents show

Investec execs launch infra origination venture

Michael Panetlogianis and Ralph Cho recently left Investec to found an Apollo Global Management-backed infrastructure venture, Apterra Infrastructure Capital

OXG Glasfaser closes fibre roll-out financing

OXG Glasfaser has closed on a debt financing package of up to €4.6 billion from a lending consortium for its upcoming fibre-to-the-home roll-out

Devenney & Murray – so that’s where you landed

Power Corporation of Canada has today launched its global and European infra credit platforms with team leaders now in place in Miami and London to target energy, transport, social, digital and other sustainable infrastructure assets

TikTok to build Norwegian data centre

TikTok has today signed a co-location agreement with Norwegian data centre company Green Mountain to build OSL2-Hamar, a 150MW campus in Hamar to support the company’s growing data storage needs

Sudatel joins data centre ecosystem in Sudan

Sudatel – Sudan’s second-largest mobile operator – has announced its participation in the DjIX platform at Wingu’s Djibouti Data Center

Agility launches data centre sites across Mideast & Africa

Industrial and logistics real estate developer Agility Logistics Parks has launched data centre campus sites in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Egypt, and Ghana

Maincubes signs €1bn facility for Europe growth

German data centre operator Maincubes has today announced that it has signed a €1.035 billion scalable finance facility to drive sustainable growth across Europe

OPFP commits $80m to Brookfield V

Ohio Police & Fire Pension Fund has made a commitment to Brookfield Infrastructure Fund V worth $80 million

Spanish data centre PPP in the works

Impulsa Galicia, a public-private partnership from the Galician government, has appointed renewable energy firm Ingenostrum as its partner on a €400 million greenfield carbon-neutral data centre project in Galicia, Spain