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Day renames Diligence, Parly goes solo, GoodCorp helps French anti-corruption, StoneTurn's UK cuts, Cooper aids FGS and Sanctuary, JS Held closures

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 Geneva, Paris, London, New York, Chicago, Sacramento...

Geneva Nick Day drops Diligence brand name

Paris Parly goes into consultancy

Paris/London GoodCorporation taps into anti-corruption sector

New York StoneTurn makes UK cuts

London Former Cameron strategist helps FGS and Sanctuary

Chicago/Sacramento JS Held waves bye to branches

Huawei's French strategic affairs director heads to CyberPeace Institute in Geneva

Adding to its line-up of senior Western cyber experts, the NGO CyberPeace Institute, of which Microsoft is a major donor, has hired Huawei executive and former French special forces officer Vincent de Crayencour.

Athena Intelligence investigates in Gulf Petrochem oil trader wars

The Swiss corporate intelligence firm conducted a probe for Italian bank UniCredit in an oil dispute that was part of a much bigger fraud scheme involving Gulf Petrochem.

Axel Krueger, Swiss adviser for oil traders, in Gazprombank's sights

Veteran mining and oil industry consultant and financier Axel Krueger is caught up in a legal battle in London where his business partner, oil trader Mourat Seitnepesov, is being sued by the Luxembourg subsidiary of Russia's Gazprombank, recently targeted by British sanctions.

The Corporate Intelligence Gazette
Athena in crypto, Dominic Armstrong, Control Risks

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 Geneva.

London Ex-Aegis Armstrong launches Horatius Advisory.

Geneva Athena Intelligence makes crypto debut.

London Control Risks has limited 2021 damage by cost cutting.

Corporate raider Nat Rothschild exposes his relationship with Indian ex-hacker Rajat Khare

Financier Nat Rothschild, a member of the British branch of the Rothschild family, has taken over an Indian IT company in partnership with Rajat Khare, well-known to readers of Intelligence Online as an Indian "hack for hire" pioneer.

Kazakh oligarchs fly off on holiday to escape the protests

The unrest in Kazakhstan has led former President Nursultan Nazarbayev's inner circle and the country's oligarchs to fly out of the country in the hope that calm will soon be restored.

Jihad Analytics tries to break into open source intelligence market

Swiss company Jihad Analytics, which was set up by a former employee of the French armed forces ministry, aims to keep jihadist organisations under surveillance by using the open source data they put out. It will attempt to carve out a niche for itself on a jihadism-focused open source intelligence (OSINT) market, where there is already strong competition.

Tracked by Kyiv, Kolomosiky clan cuts exposure in Switzerland

As Gazprom share prices yo-yo, Larissa Chertoka, sister to the Ukrainian oligarch Igor Kolomoisky, has been gradually paring back her Swiss assets down, while preserving her luxury concierge business in Geneva.

ZeNPulsar enters fake news fight with help from Kalita Partners

The newcomer has nudged its way into the increasingly competitive counter-disinformation sector. One of its executives who hails from Kalita, Alexander Pisemskiy, also co-founded the Russian cybersecurity firm Group-IB.

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.

FIS expected to join new China coordination body

Switzerland's Federal Intelligence Service (FIS) ) will be invited to participate in the new China coordinating body created as part [...]