Spotlight | Europe, Iran, United States
Iran: US lays down law to French groups

The Corporate Intelligence Village Voice
Raedas, FTI, Montrose, Casale, 5 Stones

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, Paris, New York and Miami.

LondonRaedas passes the Covid test.

ParisFTI brings in Karl Payeur to turn round its investigations business.

LondonMontrose germinates in Germany thanks to super-diplomat Michael Schaefer.

New YorkCasale moves from FBI anti-corruption unit into pharmaceuticals.

Miami-ParisFormer DEA Paris bureau chief joins 5 Stones.

Switzerland
Gunvor's general counsel Leclercq spearheads response to anti-corruption probe

The compliance team at Gunvor has swung into action after the Swiss prosecution service opened an anti-corruption investigation into the company last month.

Spotlight | France, United States
After five years, BNP still under DOJ's watchful eye

The extensive compliance architecture that BNP established in the wake of its record $8.9 billion fine has made its presence felt.

France
Demeteris, second-hand Mirage F1 broker

Pierre Duval's consulting firm Demeteris interfaced between the French Air Force and the US firm Textron Airborne Solutions on the recent sale of 63 Mirage F1.

France
Cazeneuve and holder's New bromance

The former French Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, who recently returned [...]

France, United States
Alstom sidesteps corporate monitor

After its conviction under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, France's Alstom has managed to avoid the imposition of a corporate monitor. Here's how.

France, United States
BNP may extend Guidepost contract

The US private investigation firm Guidepost Solutions looks set to have its corporate monitoring contract with BNP Paribas extended, probably [...]

United States
Guidepost recruits BNP monitors

According to our sources, BNP Paribas' corporate monitor Rosemary Lark, who recently arrived at Guidepost Solutions, is looking to hire outside help to monitor the French bank's operations.

France
Jean-Pierre Picca, BNP's compliance lawyer

While Credit Agricole is the latest to be targeted by the US Department of Justice, in Paris BNP is gradually putting in place its own US-imposed anti-corruption measures.

France, Russia, United States
Total scrutinised by US in Russia

Since the US and the EU adopted stiff sanctions against [...]

Spotlight | France, United States
France hones response to US DoJ

Paris is increasingly concerned about US-appointed corporate monitors at flagship French companies such as Total, Alcatel-Lucent or Technip. Against the backdrop of negotiations for the appointment of yet another corporate monitor, this time at BNP Paribas, and the possibility that [.

United States
BNP, DOJ disagree over monitoring

In the stand-off between the US Department of Justice and BNP Paribas, revealed by Intelligence Online back in April 2013 [...]

France, United States
US has eye on Total

After nearly a year of laborious horse-trading, the future corporate monitor of the French oil group Total should be named [...]

France
Diplomacy and Corruption

Following the conviction of several French groups for corruption in [...]

France, Iran
Paris sticks to guns on Iran

Gerard Araud will stay on as France's permanent representative to the United Nations for at least another year, through to [...]

France
Anti-corruption certificates catch on

Corruption probes have become so commonplace that growing numbers of multinationals are opting to submit to pre-emptive anti-corruption certification.

United States
FRA grows business in Europe

The US investigation firm Forensic Risk Alliance (FRA) got into anti-corruption and data protection advice early and it is now capitalising on its experience in Europe.

United Kingdom, United States
HSBC and Standard Chartered's confessor

The auditing firm Deloitte's forensic department helped the two British banks come clean against accusations of US money-laundering and sanctions violation accusations.

Spotlight | France, United States
Iranian time-bomb threatens Total

For more than a year lawyers at Total and the U.S. Department of Justice have been trying to defuse a time bomb that is threatening to blow up in the French oil giant's face with potentially dire financial and PR [.

France, Iran
Total boss plays for time

Determined to hold on to his job, Total's CEO Christophe de Margerie is dragging out the group's negotiations with the U.S. on Iran.

Spotlight | France
Corporate monitoring comes to France

In a piece of legislation that looks set to open up a lucrative new market for corporate monitors, a new law making it possible for French companies to plead guilty to corrupting government officials was approved by France's Constitutional Council [.

BNP to downsize regionally

BNP Paribas is planning to sell up in several west [...]

Banker to the rescue of Societe equatoriale des mines

To improve the mineral sector's impact on the economy (AMI [...]

Dubai holds its own rally to keep rein on gold trade

As the London and Asian stock markets assert their role as international gold trading hubs and governments across Africa show [...]

Exotix looking for explorers in need of deep-pocket partners

The investment bank Exotix Partners has just been retained by Swala to raise $120 million and is hunting for new projects.