The Corporate Intelligence Village Voice
Othrys, Ercom, Hart Security, Risk&Co

France
Greenpeace strengthens investigations division with corporate intelligence hiring

Private investigation companies and advocacy NGOs are building bridges as the former professionalise their intelligence collection.

The Corporate Intelligence Village Voice
Risk&Co, Inter-Mediate, Thales

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 Paris and London.

ParisLe Floch's arrival helps Risk & Co further accentuate its shift towards cyber.

LondonThales adviser Lord Nick Houghton questions AUKUS in the House of Lords.

LondonGilles de Kerchove begins his reconversion at Inter-Mediate.

France
Thales has room to manoeuvre to land French interceptions platform contract

With Nexa and Deveryware facing legal and administrative woes, the pool of candidates to operate the French justice ministry's new interceptions platform has shrunk substantially.

United Kingdom
The Foreign Office to invite bids for security and intelligence contracts at high-risk embassies

The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office's regular contractors for work of this kind are busy preparing their bids.

France
Thales poised to acquire DGSE favourite SIGINT specialist Ercom

Intelligence Online can reveal that the French Defense Giant Thales has make an offer to buy Ercom.

France, Iraq
Laurent Wauquiez under close protection in Baghdad

According to our sources, Laurent Wauquiez, the head of France's Les Republicains political party, was protected by the private security [...]

Richard Westbury's firm Hart Nationwide to provide security for UN mission

Hart Nationwide, a very active service provider in Mogadishu, has been entrusted with the task of providing security the United Nations mission in Somalia, for the next three years.