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Goron to supplant MPP at LVMH, GEOS in El Salvador, Jones joins Alvarez, EU sets up sanctions helpdesk, banking lobby fights financial crimes in EU

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, Brussels, Basel and Washington.

Paris Goron poised to take over from MPP as LVMH provider

Basel/Brussels Anti-money laundering banking lobby registers in EU

France GEOS heads to El Salvador for the EU

Washington Alvarez & Marsal ropes in investigations star Kenneth Jones

Brussels EU forks out €4m to help small businesses do due diligence

France
Bajolet thumbs nose at Lorenzi with new Amarante role

The arrival of Bernard Bajolet, the director of the DGSE, [...]

France
Old regime meets new with Fauvergue

To celebrate the launch of "Patron du RAID" (Mareuil Editions), [...]

France
French terrestrial drones for US commandos

It is only a small contract for now but it looks set to make a splash. The Navy SEALs have [...]

France, Kazakhstan
Episode 3 - Kazakhstan : Paid to track down the president's enemies

At the end of 2013, Bernard Squarcini joined the American business intelligence company Arcanum Global Intelligence (IOL 690), which put [...]

France
Rybolovlev seals Squarcini-Arcanum duo

The US-Swiss business intelligence firm Arcanum Global Intelligence appears to be sticking by the head of its French branch Bernard [...]

France
Bernard Squarcini

Bernard Squarcini, the former director of the DCRI, the forerunner [...]

United Kingdom
Keith Bristow joins Arcanum

Barely two weeks after leaving the National Crime Agency (NCA), Keith Bristow has joined Ron Wahid's corporate intelligence firm.

France
Bernard Squarcini

Bernard Squarcini is turning into something of a serial entrepreneur. [...]

France
Behind scenes of Amarante deal

The sale of Pierre Antoine Lorenzi's stake in Amarante was finally sealed on October 9, after much painstaking negotiation.

France
Amarante: Lorenzi sells stake to SERIS

The security firm SERIS has just acquired the shares that Pierre-Antoine Lorenzi owned in Amarante through his company Serenus Conseil. [...]

France, United States
Squarcini brings Arcanum to Paris

The US company Arcanum is opening an office in France in partnership with Bernard Squarcini, its advisor on French-speaking markets.

Switzerland, United States
Arcanum hires generals

Ron Wahid's private investigation firm has scored a major coup by hiring the chairman of the board of BAE Systems in the US.

France
Bernard Squarcini

Bernard Squarcini's business venture is positively booming. Kyrnos conseil (Corsica [...]

Kazakhstan, Switzerland
Arcanum caught up in Kazakh intrigues

Hacked e-mails anonymously posted online (see here), shed light on a deal between private investigation firm Arcanum and the Kazakh government.

France
Judge Marcadier joins LVMH

In a blow for Hermès, the French family-owned luxury bag and scarf maker that has been fighting to annul LVMH's [...]

France, United States
Squarcini poised to join Arcanum

According to our sources the US corporate intelligence firm Arcanum Global Intelligence, headed by Ron Wahid , is poised to [...]

China, France
Zabulon for key intelligence slot

Francois Hollande has chosen a prefect from his inner circle rather than a high-ranking intelligence official to be France's national intelligence coordinator.

France
Bernard Squarcini & Associates

According to information obtained by Intelligence Online, Bernard Squarcini, the former head of the DCRI, France’s internal intelligence service, is [...]

Spotlight | France
Socialists plan intelligence reforms

French intelligence officials are bracing themselves for change if, as anticipated, François Hollande succeed Nicolas Sarkozy as France's leader in the upcoming presidential election. The French Socialists have not gone public about their intentions for the sector.

France
Mancini and Delon join forces

Working in conjunction with the national intelligence coordinator, the SGDSN has consolidated its role in national security planning.

France
Mancini rejigs CNR

France's national intelligence coordinator is bidding to give a new direction to the services he oversees.