Altitude infrastructure has today reached financial close on FTTH projects in Cote d’Or and Landes, having secured €266 million in financing

The Three Seas fund has raised an additional €290 million of commitments from regional development banks

The North Carolina Department of Transportation has issued a fourth draft of the RFP to shortlisted bidders for the state’s broadband project

The International Finance Corporation is considering a $24 million equity investment into newly established pan-African telecom tower developer Eastcastle Infrastructure which plans to build up to 1,950 new towers across Sub-Saharan Africa.

Triple Point is launching a London-listed digital infrastructure fund, which is set to IPO in March and has a maiden investment lined up in the subsea cable market

The Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) has started the recruitment process to replace its chair James Shipton who stepped down in October last year following a misconduct inquiry

Optus Mobile cleared conditions precedent on schedule with its acquisition of the mobile business of Australia’s largest mobile virtual network operator for nearly $200 million

New Zealand’s Contact Energy and MUFG Bank on Friday agreed on a 4-year sustainability-linked loan of NZ$75 million

Industry associations have launched an ESG-focused listed infrastructure index

The last full calendar year – 2020 – of infrastructure and energy finance will for all time be remembered as the one that put the global economy to the test, and proved the resilience of this sector

Listed investor 3i Infrastructure reported an “expected” 45% dip in year-on-year income in the final quarter of 2020, while maintaining that its portfolio remains resilient

New York-based Upper Bay Infrastructure Partners has appointed Caitlyn MacDonald as a partner and head of investor relations

Macquarie has reached its target for MIGS II, having raised $1.1 billion from investors

Primevest Capital Partners and Vodafone Germany have partnered up on the construction of a fibre network in the city of Hadamar in the Hessian district of Limburg-Weilburg