United Kingdom
London searches for new security contractors to handle its operations in crisis zones

Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom
TAG International helps UK grow influence in Saudi national security

TAG International is operating a major training contract with the Saudi security forces under a secretive British government programme.

Spotlight | United Kingdom
British embassy in Riyadh springboard for retired diplomats' private sector careers

Following his predecessors' lead, former British ambassador to Saudi Arabia Simon Collis has taken on a number of business diplomacy roles since retiring.

Canada, Iraq
New Baghdad Airport security contractor Biznis Intel comes under fire from Iraqi MPs

Canadian security company Biznis Intel, which was previously unknown in Iraq, has replaced Britain's G4S as the company in charge of security at the capital's airport. This change has raised questions in the Green Zone, however, as the Shiite militias opposed to G4S regain influence.

Lebanon, United Kingdom
Ark Group wins British contract to support Lebanese Armed Forces

Ark Group is taking over the Lebanese Armed Forces National Security Assistance Programme, run for the past ten years by The Risk Advisory Group, amid growing insecurity in the country.

France, South Korea, United Kingdom
France, UK, muscle into Seoul's Indo-Pacific plans

Since South Korea began openly discussing its position in the debate over the Indo-Pacific region's political and strategic architecture, delegations of French and British officials have been pouring into the country in an attempt to wield influence.

The Corporate Intelligence Village Voice
Protection Group International, The Risk Advisory Group

Appointments, financial results, new contracts: each week, we report on events both big and small that matter in the global corporate intelligence community. This week we go to London and Singapore.

London PGI loses its cyber chief.

Singapore, London The Risk Advisory Group poaches Steven Westerveldt from Control Risks Group to run its new Singapore bureau.

Ethiopia, South Sudan, United Kingdom
UK-funded Pinpoint develops Ethiopian peacekeepers' intel skills

Two years before the Tigray war began in late 2020, the UK recentred its intelligence training focus for the Ethiopian military on peacekeeping operations. Now the British firm Pinpoint will also train Tanzanian and Rwandan soldiers operating in Somalia.

United Kingdom
Home Office picks Minerva, Torchlight and Pinpoint to give intelligence training to foreign security services

Part of a major new UK Home Office international cooperation framework contract is devoted to training in intelligence techniques and human sources management. Specialist firms like Minerva, Pinpoint and Torchlight, all set up by former army officers, have been selected for the task.

Lebanon, United Kingdom
Siren Associates, linchpin of UK's security cooperation work, lands new deal in Lebanon

The FCDO has made public a £15m contract to Siren Associates to support Lebanon's Internal Security Forces (ISF), as the country sinks deeper into political and economic crisis. The British firm is an old hand at this kind of work.

Iraq, United Kingdom
Adam Smith International roped in to help with Peshmerga reform

Adam Smith International has won a contract from the British foreign ministry to help the Kurdistan Region of Iraq to implement "priority reforms" mainly regarding the security forces.

Iraq, United Kingdom
After training Africa's civil servants, Crown Agents to lecture Iraqi military

British international development company Crown Agents has been awarded a contract by the Foreign Office to train Iraqi army officers.

UK consultancy Adam Smith International boosts its presence in Mogadishu

UK consultancy Adam Smith International, which is already well established in Mogadishu, has won a new €5.3m contract there to assist the Office of the Auditor General of Somalia reform its work and to help the government battle endemic corruption.