IDB Invest backs Colombian broadband expansion

IDB Invest has provided a Ps 625 billion guarantee line to a local subsidiary of Millicom, backing efforts to expand broadband and mobile coverage in Colombia

IJGlobal Awards 2021 – deadline extension

The deadline for submissions to be received for IJGlobal Awards 2021 has been pushed back to Thursday 13 January, allowing a little extra time for the last of the entries to come in

Apollo closes second infra fund with $2.54bn raised

Apollo has closed its second dedicated infrastructure fund, Apollo Infrastructure Opportunities Fund II, with roughly $2.54 billion in capital commitments

Far North Digital announces Pan-Arctic fibre cable with C...

Far North Digital-True North Global Networks and Cinia have announced plans to jointly construct a fibre optic cable system linking Europe and Asia through the Arctic

New managing partners at V&E NY

Eamon Nolan has been promoted to co-managing partner of the New York office of Vinson & Elkins, working alongside M&A partner Dan Komarek

AMLO lines up third investment package

Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador plans to unveil his administration’s third wave of public-private investments by the end of January

OCERS plans $250m real assets spend

Orange County Employees Retirement Systems is planning to make a $250 million commitment to real assets, including infrastructure and energy investments

Cordiant to acquire 2 digital infra assets

Cordiant Digital Infrastructure has agreed to acquire 2 assets, one in New York and the other in Poland

Pulsant acquires Manchester data centre

Maidenhead-based Pulsant has acquired a Manchester data centre from telecoms service provider M247, for an undisclosed sum

Teraco majority stake sold to Digital Realty

Investment firms Berkshire Partners and Permira are to sell a majority of their stakes in Teraco Data Environments – Sub-Saharan Africa’s biggest carrier-neutral data centre provider – to Digital Realty

Tender launched for Brazilian fibre PPP

The state government of Mato Grosso do Sul has published bid documents for the Infovia Digital fibre optic PPP

Keppel to acquire second UK data centre

Keppel DC REIT has entered into an agreement to acquire a UK data centre for £57 million

Credit Agricole sets up shop in Australia

Credit Agricole CIB has set up shop in Australia as a licenced bank effective today as a part of the French bank’s expansion strategy