Africa Finance Corporation has priced a $500 million perpetual hybrid bond, marking the DFI’s debut hybrid bond issuance

DFI-backed lender Climate Investment Funds has issued a debut $500 million climate finance bond to attract private sector investment to its clean energy financing programmes

Edged Energy and Merlin Properties will work with Extremadura regional government to develop 2 large-scale data centre campuses in Spain

The U.S. Trade and Development Agency has awarded funding to Nigeria’s Ministry of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy for a telecom infrastructure feasibility study

Stack Infrastructure is developing a 220MW data centre in Johor Bahru, marking its entry into the Malaysian market

Power Sustainable has closed a C$85 million financing for Canadian Fiber Optics Corporation, a fibre optics company based in Calgary, to support the build-out of broadband internet in rural western Canada

Asset manager Stonepeak has hired Eanna Murphy as an operating partner to support its activity in data centres and digital infrastructure, effective immediately

Vodacom and Orange have partnered to BOO solar-powered mobile base stations in underserved areas of the Democratic Republic of Congo

Patrizia is to acquire Operadora Iberica de Redes y Servicios, the Spanish fibre-to-the-home network owner and broadband and mobile operator

Telecom Infrastructure Partners has secured a €560 million debt facility from InfraBridge and Swiss Life Asset Managers to scale its international operations

StepStone has reached final close on its first infrastructure fund backed by a pool of institutional investors, raising $1.4 billion

Nordic-focused fund manager Infranode has hired Zacharias Karlsen and Johannes Lien as partner and senior adviser respectively, based in Stockholm

The UK government today announced a £14 billion investment into the data centre sector, as 2 tech firms commit to an investment package to boost the industry