Hoy leaves ANZ for Greenhill

M&A banker Scott Hoy has reportedly left his position as group head of M&A at the ANZ bank to join Greenhill as managing director of the company’s Australian corporate advisory team

Snowball to head AMP Private Markets

The current chair of Provident Financial, Patrick Snowball, has been appointed as the new chair of AMP Capital’s Private Markets business

IPA publishes final guidance on shift to SONIA

The UK Infrastructure Projects Authority on Monday published its final guidance on the adoption of SONIA as the new benchmark for PFI projects

Pantheon infra fund seeks £300m London IPO

Pantheon Ventures is launching a publicly traded global infrastructure fund in London, eyeing a £300 million IPO

Kenyan 4G provider in talks with IFC

Kenyan wireless infra company ATK is in talks with the IFC over a potential $25 million loan to debt finance new BTS towers as part of a 4G coverage expansion

Ardian to buy Spanish fibre provider

Ardian Infrastructure has won an auction to acquire Barcelona-based broadband provider Adamo Telecom from EQT's mid-market private equity fund

Axiata, Sinar Mas mull Indonesia telecoms merger

Malaysia-based telecoms company Axiata Group and Indonesia conglomerate Sinar Mas Group are reportedly in talks to merge their Indonesian telecoms businesses

BRIDGE V hits €1.2bn target as team grows

Edmond de Rothschild’s fifth infrastructure debt fund has hit its €1.2 billion target, as the platform bolsters its team and expands its global ambitions

Vietnam to auction 5G spectrum

Vietnam's Ministry of Information and Communications has outlined plans to launch a spectrum auction for LTE and 5G this quarter that allows telecoms operators to launch 5G services by 2022

China finds guinea pig for infra REIT market

China’s promotion of a market for infrastructure REITs is set to get a boost as a Beijing-based infrastructure supplier and developer mulls whether to package and issue a nearly $290 million trust

Goodman, STT GDC to develop Japan data centres

Singapore-based ST Telemedia Global Data Centres enters Japan by partnering with property group Goodman to develop new data centres in the east of Tokyo metro area

Mato Grosso do Sul advances digital infra project

The state government of Mato Grosso do Sul has approved technical feasibility studies for the Infovia Digital fibre optic project, expected to be offered as a 30-year concession

Kenya launches data centre tender

Kenya Electricity Generating Company has invited RFP bids from consultancy firms for the pre-development work on a commercial Tier IV data centre project

Natixis partners with Chilean financial adviser

Natixis Corporate and Investment Banking has signed a cooperation agreement with Chile’s Tyndall Group to develop joint advisory mandates for M&A transactions

Delay on €1.2bn Irish data centre

Procurement of the proposed €1.2 billion Clare County data centre has been delayed by around 4 weeks due to requests for further information from the council