Goldfinch Takes Its Dealmaking to Bangladesh and Indonesia

Goldfinch International, the emerging-markets arm of London-based entertainment financier and producer Goldfinch, is expanding into Bangladesh and Indonesia. The two projects are a proposed Bangladesh soccer (football) league and a film joint venture in Indonesia, Variety reported on 28 October 2026.

The Bangladesh plan runs through a consortium called the Bangladesh Strategic Partnership. Its members are Goldfinch International, 1CS Holdings Limited, the creative company Fablemill and Germany's Akani Group. Nazir Alam, who heads 1CS Holdings, is the partnership's executive chairman.

The consortium has signed a memorandum of understanding (a non-binding agreement setting out shared intent) with the Bangladesh Football Federation. The two sides will explore building a Bangladesh Super League. The league would combine existing clubs with regional franchises, which are teams run under the name of a particular region.

Talks have also opened with the Bangladesh Olympic Association, the ICT Division, Startup Bangladesh and the Ministry of Youth and Sports. The subject is sports infrastructure, meaning the stadiums and training facilities a league needs. In a LinkedIn post dated 21 October, Goldfinch International said it is leading development of the league.

In Indonesia, Goldfinch has formed a joint venture with Jakarta creative company Rangkai, whose chief executive is Redemptus Rangga Raditya. The two signed an MoU with the Jakarta Film Commission at the Cannes Film Festival in May. The venture will work across community building, distribution, global sales (selling films to buyers in other countries), production and advisory work.

Goldfinch's Asia push follows a separate deal it struck at Cannes. It launched a strategic tie-up with Fablemill, a Bahrain-based production and advisory company led by Eman Alsabah. The partnership focuses on the creative economy of the Global South, a term for developing and emerging economies across Africa, Asia, Latin America and parts of the Middle East. Variety reported that it targets governments and sovereign wealth funds, the state-owned investment pools that manage national savings.

Money is part of the picture too. An emerging-markets production debt fund, which lends to film and television productions, launched in 2025. It is set to start deploying capital in early 2027. Goldfinch also has a Singapore branded entertainment studio, Vault 47, formed with Virtue in late 2025.

For film and sport, the common thread is financing and partners. Goldfinch is building local ties in several markets at once, with a sports league in one country, a film venture in another and a fund behind both. Whether the Bangladesh league moves from memorandum to signed contracts has not been announced.