The EU has launched the EU-LAC Global Gateway Investment Agenda, pledging to invest over €45 billion in the region until 2027

Asset manager EQT held a first close on its flagship infrastructure equity fund last week a €11 billion

Established infrastructure banker Geoff Smith has joined Stout UK as London-based managing director and head of debt advisory, joining from the UK Infrastructure Bank which he exited at the end of June

Christopher Ang has taken over an expanded role as group head for infrastructure and project finance at UOB

Australia’s Aware Super has decided to invest up to $500 million in Switch, a 100% renewable-powered data centre platform backed by a DigitalBridge-managed investment entity

The flagship equity fund of an infrastructure manager has deployed more than 30% of the capital it raised at final close last year across 6 deals

Financing details of KKR and Entel’s acquisition of 64% of wholesale fibre optic company PangeaCo – a Peruvian subsidiary of Telefónica Hispanoamérica – have emerged

Lenders are processing a jumbo $3.1 billion sustainability-linked syndicated senior debt facility for Macquarie and Public Sector Pension Investment Board-owned data centre operator AirTrunk

The International Finance Corporation has appointed Manuela Adl as senir country manager Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay

Sarawak Consolidated Industries has inked an MoU with IRIX - the sole shareholder of a company participating in the construction of a submarine cable system connecting Hong Kong, Hainan and Southeast Asian markets 

CityFibre has kicked-off works on its £42 million network growth into South Tyneside, the company said today (

Amethis has announced a €140 million first close on its third pan-African fund – Amethis Fund III

Alternative investment firm Stonepeak has received a passive, minority from Blue Owl’s GP Strategic Capital platform, a capital provider for institutional alternative asset managers

BNP Paribas Asset Management has promoted Paris-based Vincent Guillaume to deputy head of infrastructure debt

New Zealand-listed Infratil has agreed to acquire a majority stake in network provider and interconnection firm Console Connect from Hong Kong-based telecommunications company HKT