Jordan Stutts

The G20’s Global Infrastructure Hub has launched an online procurement service that could change the way investors find opportunities. We zoom in on the initiative.

The firm expects to have collected more than $500m by the end of February as it advances towards a $750m final close this summer.

This is the financial services provider’s second debt agreement for a US wind farm in three months.

The Labourers’ Pension Fund of Central and Eastern Canada has also made up to C$200m available to develop NRStor’s project pipeline.

Jim Leech has been appointed to help establish the Canada Infrastructure Bank, a C$35bn spending programme designed to develop major projects and boost the country’s economy.

The firm’s holding in the parking lot developer originated from the 2009 acquisition of a subsidiary owned by Cintra.

Infrastructure comprises $27.6bn and 42% of the pension's new real assets portfolio, with real estate holdings making up the rest.

Stephen Moore has been appointed by 32 Advisors as a strategic partner in the firm's economic advisory and infrastructure development services.

The company already has a portfolio of more than 20 solar and wind projects in various stages of development in the country.

This would be Carlyle’s third energy and infrastructure related fund to close in the past year, following $1.5bn and $2.8bn final closes in 2016.