France, United Kingdom, United States
Ergo, Vantage, G3, Silverbridge, Audere, Amarante, GEOS, Baubigeat Zeller

Algeria, France
Paris-Algiers: Manager of Amarante's Algerian subsidiary held over espionage claim

As relations between Algeria and France continue to deteriorate, we have learned that the manager of Amarante International's Algerian subsidiary, an Algerian national, has been held in prison for over a year on suspicion of spying.

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Laurel Insights, Animus Associates, Teneo, Bird Dog

Appointments, financial results, new contracts: every Wednesday, we report on events big and small that matter in the global corporate intelligence community.

New YorkBlue Heron Research staff find new roost at Laurel Insights

LondonAnimus sees net assets plunge in 2023

New YorkPatrick Quish goes solo

LondonForensic investigator Mark Tantam leaves Teneo

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WestExec, Elicius, FCDO security in Warsaw, G3

Appointments, financial results, new contracts: every Wednesday, we report on events big and small that matter in the global corporate intelligence community.

LondonElicius Intelligence expands

WashingtonWestExec Advisors boosts advisory team

LondonPilgrims Group stays by FCDO

LondonPeter Enskat promoted CEO of G3

France, Gulf of Guinea
Amarante teams with Cassini Conseil to advise French defence ministry

Amarante International is teaming with Cassini Conseil for an observational study “on the analysis of audiences of interest to France in the Gulf of Guinea area”, for the French DGRIS.

France
French Development Agency entrusts its security to Amarante and GEOS

Amarante and GEOS, which are competing fiercely with each other on different international markets, have been chosen to provide international security services for two French development agencies.

France
Security firms fuming over TotalEnergies Tripoli contract

Total's compliance service says the company's deal with Marcus Security and Basalt is above board, but regular private security suppliers are up in arms.

Ukraine, United Kingdom
Intelligence firm Raedas donates to NGO helping rebuild Ukraine

Andrew Wordsworth, a favourite of Russian high-net-worth individuals in need of litigation support services, has funded his daughter Ada Wordsworth's KHARPP organisation, which is involved in the reconstruction of buildings in Ukraine.

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Stephen quits Stoneturn, Sports integrity, EU ups security in Pretoria, Adrian Stones's two hats

Appointments, financial results, new contracts: every Wednesday, we report on events big and small that matter in the global corporate intelligence community.

Singapore/New YorkStoneturn loses China-focused investigator

LondonNew firm linked to sports integrity pro Paul Beeby

BrusselsEU delegation to Pretoria boosts security

LondonDentons picks Adrian Stones

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BlueVoyant in unfair dismissal spat, two ex-Met chiefs team up, GEOS lands Dushanbe contract

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 Delaware, London and Brussels.

Dover, Delaware Cyberfirm BlueVoyant sued by former CCO

London Hogan-Howe teams up with ex-Met man at Intelligent Sanctuary

Brussels GEOS and Red Line land strategic EU contract in Tajikistan

France, Ukraine
Parisian PR veterans back Kyiv through #StandWithUkraine

#StandWithUkraine, a French association headed by two PR professionals with close connections to Kyiv, is heavily involved in the communications and legal side of the war in Ukraine. It has been carrying out a series of public relations operations in Europe.

Spotlight | China, United States
Risk and Intelligence firms' hunger for ex-CIA China experts grows

As relations between the US and China grow ever more tense, corporate intelligence firms are keen to have several ex-CIA China experts among their ranks, with traditional investigation firms vying for the same recruits as new AI-based analysis providers.

The Corporate Intelligence Village Voice
Mitmark investigates crypto, Adrian Stones goes solo, and TRAG quits Hong Kong

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 Hong Kong.

LondonMitmark called in to investigate NFTs

LondonAdrian Stones goes solo

Hong KongTRAG joins exodus

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StoneTurn, Highgate, Passage Consulting, EPEE

Appointments, financial results, new contracts: every week, we report on events big and small that matter in the global corporate intelligence community. This week, we head to Washington, London, Paris and Belgrade.

New York/London Mackintosh marks StoneTurn's arrival on British insider threat market

London Ileana Konialidis, from Lukashenko to Highgate

Paris/Belgrade Award for French consultant Jacques Hogard amid ethnic tensions

Washington Passage Consulting steps in as ISR's Washington lobbyist

Belarus
Belarusian facial recognition company set to get a hearing before the EU Court of Justice

Belarusian facial recognition firm Synesis has been fighting for 18 months against an EU decision to sanction it for its alleged role in the repression of protests against the election of Alexander Lukashenko in August 2020.

The Intelligence Gazette
French DGSI's new hiring cell, Rosgvardia's deputy directors, Tel Aviv boosts Albanian cyber, New York jet-setter wins case against Moscow

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community. This week we home in on Paris, Tel Aviv, Tirana and Moscow.

FranceDGSI's new recruitment cell.

RussiaA new deputy for Zolotov.

Israel/AlbaniaTel Aviv pledges cyber security boost to Tirana.

France/RussiaMoscow loses case in Paris court.

France, United Kingdom
Petr Aven and Mikhail Fridman lead the charge against sanctions

The two businessmen are each trying as much to distance themselves from the Russian government as to take on sanctions imposed on them by the UK and the European Union - and they are using the same circles of French and British lawyers to do so.

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Audere, Wallbrook, ESL & Network

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 and Antananarivo.

LondonNew managing director joins upbeat Audere.

LondonAndrew Briggs back to bank

Paris/Antananarivo Perceau brokers Rajoelina-ESL & Network PR deal

Europe, Russia, United States
Bellingcat, a talent incubator for private intelligence firms

The lastest must-have in the world of corporate intelligence is a former contributor, often a volunteer, from the British open source investigation site.

United Kingdom
Ignat Ostantin, Russian OSINT expert, joins Raedas

Open source investigation, very popular with NGOs and highly visible on Twitter and other social media in recent years, is now being taken up by the private investigation world.

United States
Portman, former Diligence USA, goes solo

In the wake of the legal dispute between Diligence's managers [...]

Private security heavyweights vie for EUCAP contract

American, British and French firms are battling it out to win the EU call for tenders to train the police. It is one of Somalia's largest private security contracts.