France
US' Palantir to stay part of French intelligence until end of Macron presidency?

The Agencies' Gazette
DGSI and Palantir, NSA reshuffle, US base in Micronesia, police-gendarmerie friction in France

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community.

FrancePalantir still banned in some DGSI divisions, despite contract renewal

USQuiet reshuffle at head of NSA's military arm

MicronesiaUS lawyer to oversee talks on Yap base expansion

FranceSDAO's rise irks police

France
Finance ministry's Tracfin urges banks to file fewer SARs

Faced with an influx of suspicious activity reports and lacking a big data tool to process them, the French finance ministry's anti-money laundering unit in late 2025 asked the banking sector to restrict the number of SARs it files.

Europe
Palantir, Chapsvision, Octostar: the battle for European intelligence platforms is go

Faced with the Russian threat, several European countries want to acquire intelligence data processing platforms - which they are still lacking - in the very near future. Competition is intensifying between US, French and Italian players.

United Kingdom
Palantir woos AUKUS in London as pact expands focus on tech

The second pillar of the AUKUS defence alliance between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States, will focus on developing new defence and intelligence capabilities using artificial intelligence. The US big data intelligence group Palantir is stepping up its presence in the UK to ensure it remains a key player in the alliance's future.

France
France honours boss of DGSI's big data provider

The French entrepreneur Olivier Dellenbach has been included on the Légion d'Honneur list for 14 July, on the nomination of France's Minister for the Economy Éric Lombard.

The Corporate Intelligence Gazette
Former Atos exec in the Balkans, Delubac, Burson Middle East, Barbican Advisory

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

LondonFormer Atos vice-president connects British tech, Elon Musk and Serbia

ParisDelubac, the ‘complex contracts' bank, launches own magazine

RiyadhSurprise exit at Burson Middle East, Riyadh's favourite comms group

SingaporeFormer Blackpeak director joins Barbican Advisory

Spotlight | France
French intelligence service safeguards funding for developing in-house spyware

While the French domestic intelligence agency is one of the entities least affected by recent interior ministry budget cuts, that financial pressure caused considerable concern within its technical directorate, currently working on a major in-house spyware project.

France
DGSI launches tests for future open source investigation platform

The French internal intelligence service has asked its agents to test OSINT products developed by the private sector.

France
ChapsVision poised to win DGSI call for tender

France's domestic intelligence agency, the DGSI, is about to announce the winners of the call for tender for its mass data analysis platform, OTDH.

France
The DGSI

The DGSI, France's internal intelligence service, has finally signed a [...]