France
Tracfin executives' exodus to private sector continues

France
Ex-intelligence officer makes rare step into left-wing politics

A former stalwart of France's financial crimes agency Tracfin, who now works for a French bank, joined the French Socialist Party in January.

France
French intelligence and drug trafficking: a patchwork of blurred powers

A French Senate report into drug trafficking points to intelligence weaknesses, including a "conspicuously absent" DGSI and police, gendarme and customs officials who disagree about the role of intelligence.

The Intelligence Gazette
MIT spending, DC quiet on pilots in China, Sergey Beseda in good form, Tracfin reform toughens, KGB takes swipe at MI6

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community, from Ankara to Moscow via Paris and London.

TurkeyIraq and Syria operations MIT's biggest expense

France/United StatesUS and UK left France out of loop over China pilot training

Russia/UkraineQuestions of Ukraine intel fail to shake Beseda from FSB

FranceFinance ministry's intelligence reform ramps up a notch

United Kingdom/RussiaRussian author takes swipe at MI6

France
French intelligence services and financial prosecutors increase ties

Discussions between intelligence services and prosecutors probing financial crimes used to be carried out on an informal basis - but now they are intensifying, with an increasing focus on security risks raised by outsourcing anti-corruption work.

France
Anti-corruption agency pleads for closer collaboration with intelligence services

During his hearing by the MPs from the parliamentary enquiry commission on foreign interference on 26 January, the head of the French Anti-Corruption Agency (AFA), Charles Duchaine, pleaded for greater collaboration with the intelligence services.

France
French financial intelligence service Tracfin makes management changes as part of strategic plan

Guillaume Valette-Valla, the head of the French financial intelligence service Tracfin, has been reshuffling management to carry out its strategic plan and to do so ahead of the opening of a second headquarters next year.

France, Israel
Tracfin seeks cooperation with counterpart IMPA to crackdown on bi-national financial crimes

A real problem for the French-Israeli relationship for years now, financial frauds carried out by dual nationals from the Jewish state continue to grow in number, but a joint agreement between the two countries is set to change that.

The Corporate Intelligence Village Voice
Nardello, BPCE, Alaco, Paris forensic investigators

Appointments, financial results, new contracts, in Washington, London and Paris: each week, we recount the great and small events in the global corporate intelligence community.

WashingtonNardello loses cyber chief.

ParisBPCE strengthens security with financial intelligence specialist.

LondonAlaco expands with Liberia contract.

ParisForensic investigators network.

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.

France
Tracfin receives outside help on internal reforms

The internal reform of Tracfin, the French financial intelligence service, is due to be announced by its director Maryvonne Le [...]