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Russia
FSB comes back in from the cold

Benefitting from the rising number of incidents on Russia's periphery and the careful staging of its response to these, the national security service has returned to the forefront of Russian politics after being given the cold shoulder over its strategic errors on Ukraine.

Brazil, China
Lula's special adviser handed task of coordinating diplomatically delicate Beijing trip

Brazil is striving to build a strategic partnership with China while keeping on the US's good side. The president's senior policy adviser Celso Amorim has been busy on all fronts trying to strike this delicate balance, not least by cultivating links with the PCC's propaganda department.

United States
Top private investigators approved to track and list conspiracy theorist Alex Jones's assets

Peddling fake news about a school shooting at his Infowars media empire has resulted in judgments of $1.5bn against Jones. Nardello & Co., Akin Gump, and Teneo Holdings have been assigned the task of tracing and monitoring his assets to maximize payout to victims' families.

Israel, Luxembourg
From New York to Geneva, Israeli-Luxembourg due diligence firm Sqope prospers under Krancenblum

Veteran Luxembourg due diligence firm Sqope has had a new lease of life, opening up outposts from New York to Geneva and appointing new people, since the arrival of CEO Ilana Krancenblum and with the help of a number of Israeli consultants.

The Corporate Intelligence Gazette
Macron's ex-bodyguard in Kyiv, former Met officer goes private, from SFO to Capital Law, Beckles signs with Ankara, Bison poaches from 5 Stones, Nardello promotions

Appointments, financial results, new contracts: every Wednesday, we report on events big and small that matter in the global corporate intelligence community, from Paris to London, New York and Kyiv.

Paris/KyivFormer Macron security advisor prospects in Kyiv

LondonSpencer Barnett goes private

LondonSFO investigator who led to Glencore conviction joins Capital Law

WashingtonLobbyist Alex Beckles gets closer to Ankara

WashingtonBison Group shops at 5 Stones

New York On a high, Nardello goes on promotion drive

UAE
UAE's Edge Group and G42 get into natural language processing

Natural language processing, popularised by ChatGPT, is of particular interest to the UAE's security apparatus conglomerates for their big data and open source intelligence (OSINT) programmes. The technology also promises to offer new firms in the sector a means to conduct low-cost influence operations.