Institutional investor recruits class of '21

A pension fund in northeast Asia has issued an RFP to investment firms to manage 8 new infrastructure mandates

Worcester county announces broadband RFP

The Worcester County Department of Information Technology has issued an RFP to deploy high-speed broadband to unserved areas of the county in Maryland

Sumitomo to build smart city in Vietnam

Japan-based trading house Sumitomo is partnering with 5 Japanese companies on the smart city project Dong Ahn district, northern Hanoi, Vietnam

Finnish fund-of-funds reaches €104m mark

Finland-based Evli Bank’s fund-of-funds has raised €104 million ($122m) in total commitments after reaching a third close

US EXIM bank to fund 5G in Brazil

Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM) will finance infrastructure in Brazil totalling up to $1 billion with a special focus on telecommunications (including 5G networks)

Trousers / lunch / awards

Cellnex buys Polish Play towers

Cellnex has agreed to acquire a controlling stake in a network of about 7,000 towers in Poland from Iliad in a deal worth €800 million

IJGlobal League Tables – Q3 2020

IJGlobal today publishes league table findings for infrastructure finance and project finance of infra and energy transactions for Q3 2020, giving a global view of the sectors for deals closed in 2020 so far

Goldman Sachs invests in data centre platform

The Goldman Sachs Merchant Banking Division (GSMBD) has signed a partnership with data centre specialist Scott Peterson to form Global Compute Infrastructure

UPDATE: Telkom Indonesia restructures business

Telkom Indonesia has completed a portfolio restructuring by selling 6,050 telecommunication towers under its subsidiary Telekomunikasi Selular (Telkomsel) for Rp10.3 trillion

Pension fund managers launch tie-up

Two of the world's asset management heavyweights - Dutch pension fund APG and the National Pension Service of South Korea (NPS) - have launched an investment partnership

Asian LP commits to climate tech fund

A development finance institution has approved a commitment to a fund targeting climate resilience and adaptation solutions, following a nearly year-long assessment