Centre Stage: Mark Davyd assesses the state of the grassroots music sector

FIFA announced in late July that it wanted to create FIFA Forward Enterprise, a company holding the commercial rights and event delivery of all its tournaments. This was valued at around $20 billion, with minority stakes to be sold to investors to raise $4.2 billion. JP Morgan was advising. Thrive, run by Josh Kushner, was expected to front the investor group. FIFA insisted that, despite these developments, “for ...