
Deal focus: ACA seeks Asia-Europe sporting synergies

Japan’s ACA Group has acquired a Belgium-based KMSK Deinze as part of a multi-club investment strategy that will – in part – bring Asian players into the middle tiers of European football
When STVV, a football club competing in Belgium’s first division, acquired Vietnamese striker Cong Phuong Nguyen in 2019, its followers on social networking platforms doubled almost overnight, according...
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US regulator gets access to Chinese audits
The threat of delisting that has haunted Chinese companies that trade on US exchanges appears to have receded after the US regulators announced they had gained full access to the audits of these companies for the first time.