Digital infrastructure company Equinix has announced plans to set up a $74 million international business exchange data centre in Jakarta, Indonesia

Antin Infrastructure Partners’ fifth flagship fund has held first close, raising more than €5 billion to invest in infrastructure opportunities

Infracapital, the equity investment arm of M&G, has secured an €895 million debt facility from 4 commercial lenders to fund its fibre roll-out in rural Germany

NIBC Infrastructure Partners – lead arranger for the short-term loan facilities for Open Dutch Fiber’s fibre-to-the-premises roll-out – will increase the financing of the business

A limited partner has passed a milestone to allocate capital to a debt fund in Asia targeting to raise $750 million

TriStruX – Huron Capital’s Infrastructure Services Platform – is set to acquire fibre specialist Hess Broadband

Bahrain-based telecoms business Batelco – via its subsidiary Sure – will incorporate Channel Islands-based mobile network provider Airtel-Vodafone into its offering

UK-based Mace Group has expanded its data centre market in the Asia Pacific by appointing Chris Wallace as the head of data centres and critical facilities

Investment manager Wren House Infrastructure Management has acquired a minority stake in US mobile communications infra business Phoenix Tower International from Blackstone

Vodafone UK has confirmed speculation surrounding a possible merger with British telecoms business Hutchison 3G UK – a subsidiary of CK Hutchison Holdings

Societe Generale infrastructure veteran Robert Ogden has this month left the French bank for a director role at SMBC

Meridiam has reached financial close on the Alberta Broadband Networks project that will bring fibre connectivity in the greater Edmonton region

The Investment Management Corporation of Ontario has reached an agreement to invest up to $450 million in DataBank, the largest edge infrastructure operator in the US

Pierfront Capital Fund Management at the end of last week hit final close on Keppel-Pierfront Private Credit Fund with a total investable capital of $700 million

OCU Group – via O’Connor Utilities, its northern operating unit – is set to acquire a majority stake in Leeds-based telecoms contracting business InICT Limited