China, France, UAE, United States
Foreign Legion veterans no longer needed to watch over disgraced Binance cryptocurrency group boss

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François Lecointre, Binance and Guidepost update, G3, WestExec

Nominations, résultats financiers, nouveaux contrats : chaque mercredi, les petites et les grandes histoires de la communauté mondiale du renseignement d'affaires.

ParisFormer top general Lecointre's active retirement

WashingtonForeign Legion veterans unwittingly cited for surveillance of ex-Binance boss

LondonG3 hires Asia experts after landing John Sawers

WashingtonWestExec looks to space with former Pentagon UFO expert

France, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Ukraine
Amarante's revenues top record €60m

French corporate intelligence and private security company Amarante International is counting on contracts in Saudi Arabia and Iraq to consolidate its position as an emerging market leader in Europe.

Russia
Binance quietly helped sanctioned Russian crypto exchange

Garantex has been linked to Hamas and darknet actors.

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McLarty and Ikea, UN investigator in Manchester, Avisa in crypto, SFO's Edwards, Houghton at Strategy&

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 Brussels, before heading to Manchester and then on to Paris and London.

Brussels Ikea to turn to McLarty over possible Belarusian prisoner links?

Manchester New investigation firm for the UK's North West

Paris Avisa Partners counts on fledgling RAID Square for crypto-investigations

London Former SFO Kellie Edwards goes solo

London Houghton advises Strategy&, drops Crossword

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BDO, Ed Vaizey advises Altermind, Williamson at Control Risks, Treliant back in the game

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 New York, London and Paris.

New York BDO's forensics boss dismissed

London/Paris Ed Vaizey advises Actum and Altermind

London Hugo Williamson back to corporate intelligence

New York Treliant moves into compliance and investigations

France
Tracfin to speed up cryptocurrency investigations with private help

France's financial intelligence service Tracfin is looking to strengthen its capacities in response to the rising numbers of illegal transactions involving cryptocurrencies, at a time when ransomware attacks and sanctions evasion are increasingly rife.

United Kingdom
British FCA expands toolkit ahead of possible boost of cryptocurrency oversight powers

The UK's Financial Conduct Authority wants to see its regulatory powers over the crypto asset sector strengthened and is already working to develop its technical capabilities in the area, starting with a blockchain analytics platform.