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

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Musical chairs at the ODNI, Tracfin advisers, Ukraine's GUR, Iranian Kurdish forces

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

USTulsi Gabbard expands legal affairs office

FranceAnti-money laundering body seeking legal adviser

UkraineOpsec issue at military intelligence

IranKurdish parties move towards a joint structure

France
Socialist MPs go on the offensive for new tax intelligence laws

The French National Assembly is debating a bill to tackle social security and tax fraud today, and the Socialist Party is keen to prioritise the issue of tax intelligence.

France
Finance ministry's Tracfin strengthens its 'R' intelligence division

The anti-money laundering agency's secretive unit has just been joined by an executive from the DGSE foreign intelligence agency, illustrating the growing ties between both services.

France
French finance ministry's latest move to bring its spies under one roof

After customs intelligence and pending the arrival of the French finance ministry's Tracfin anti-money laundering service, a sensitive and little-known entity dedicated to smuggling networks is also set to move to a building south of Paris.

France
French anti-money laundering agency Tracfin gets broader information-sharing powers

A decree signed just before the fall of François Bayrou's government expanded the list of entities with which the finance ministry's anti-money laundering service may share information from 14 to 40.

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

It will be months, perhaps even years, before the OTDH data fusion system at the DGSI, the French domestic intelligence service, is fully operational. US group Palantir therefore looks set to have a presence in the service for some time.

France
Tracfin still waiting for its 'Sirano' big data platform

Although French financial intelligence service Tracfin has grown fast in line with its growing responsabilities in recent years, it has been finding it more difficult to keep its technical capacities up to speed. Its 'Sirano' big data platform programme, which was first developed by Capgemini, is running five years late.