Finnish fibre raises €250m in funding round

Finnish fibre infrastructure builder and operator Valoo is to benefit from an about €250 million funding package from a pan-European lending group

EllaLink reshuffles senior sales team

Marguerite-backed EllaLink has restructured its senior sales team with the creation of 2 units

AfDB loans to Cameroon transport, energy

African Development Bank has approved a €63.09 million loan to Cameroon to support entrepreneurship and advance industrial skills

SMBC closes $200m fund for Colombian energy, infra

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation and financial advisory firm LarrainVial have closed a $200 million Colombia-focused debt fund

Update: Future Fiber raises debt financing

Future Fiber has made its debut debt to deliver roll-out open-access fiber-to-the-home networks across the US

Eastdil Secured hires digital infra head

Global real estate investment bank Eastdil Secured has hired Rob Walters as managing director, based in the firm’s Washington DC office

Credit Agricole hires infra director

Credit Agricole CIB has hired Henry Manson as director within its infrastructure coverage team in London under managing director Mike Nowak

Colombia Móvil secures $48m financing

Colombian telecoms firm Colombia Móvil has secured a Ps197.4 billion loan from IDB Invest

Emitel refinances senior debt

Polish telecoms operator Emitel has secured a PLN 1.57 billion refinancing loan from a consortium of lenders

EU pledges over $50bn to Lat Am, Caribbean

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

Latest EQT fund holds first close at €11bn

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

Smith follows UKIB with Stout role

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

UOB’s Ang slips into expanded role

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

Australian super invests in DigitalBridge-backed data cen...

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