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UNITED STATES 24/09/2008 Makeover for World Bank Inquiry Unit Under fire during Paul Wolfowitz tenure as president, the World Bank's investigative unit has been radically overhauled and taken on new staff. [...]
FRANCE 23/04/2008 "Pirate-Mer" Shows its Stuff Directed by president Nicolas Sarkozy, personnel involved in the release of the crew of the Ponent cruise ship applied procedures of France's "Pirate-Mer" (Sea Pirate) plan for the first time. [...]
UNITED STATES 05/09/2007 Spy Masters Add Lustre to Veracity The new business intelligence outfit Veracity Worldwide counts a former head of Britain’s MI6 and the Middle East director of CIA among its advisers. [...]
UNITED STATES 21/06/2007 Triple Canopy Takes New Turn Triple Canopy Takes New Turn. Founded and run by veterans [...]
UNITED STATES 24/05/2007 GlobalSource’s Powerful Backers The GlobalSource firm that was founded by former ArmorGroup executives has appointed an advisory board on which intelligence specialists rub shoulders with former private sector bosses. [...]
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UNITED STATES 11/01/2007 Thomas Pickering After serving for five years as Boeing's "foreign minister," so [...]
UNITED KINGDOM 11/01/2007 ArmorGroup Takes New Tack Anxious to diversify its sources of income, Britain's ArmorGroup has just laid out GBP 1 million to acquire the small [...]
UNITED STATES 11/01/2007 Big Equity Fund Make Their Move After planning the initiative for six months (IOL 529), the biggest equity funds in the U.S. are to launch their [...]
UNITED KINGDOM 07/12/2006 AIG Hires ex MI6 Boss AIG Hires ex MI6 Boss. Director of MI6 until August, [...]
UNITED STATES 06/07/2006 Daylight Forensic Rivals KPMG A former FBI agent and an ex prosecutor who had both worked for KPMG have just founded a financial forensics firm with backing from the venture capital company FT Ventures. [...]
FRANCE 24/05/2006 Geos Pulls in the Business Although it hit a difficult patch when several executives left last autumn, Geos has landed fresh contracts and expects growth to surge in 2006-2007. [...]
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UNITED STATES 14/07/2005 Arthur Levitt The former chairman of the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), [...]
UNITED STATES 20/01/2005 Bin Laden Hunter Finds Work with AIG The California-based security firm Clayton Consultants which has a long-term contract with the American insurance giant AIG has just hired [...]
UNITED STATES 06/01/2005 Taking Cue from MMC Charged with bid rigging by New York prosecutor Eliot Spitzer, several financial services companies have copied the example of Marsh [...]
Spotlight UNITED STATES 16/12/2004 MMC Acquisition of Kroll a Mixed Blessing Although Marsh & McLennan's acquisition of Kroll in May and appointment of Michael Cherkasky as boss of MMC has helped the financial services company to avoid criminal charges, notably for bid rigging, the investigative firm itself hasn't gained much from [. [...]
IRAQ 16/12/2004 Good Times Roll for Insurance Men The security boom in Iraq is benefiting lawyers and insurance companies as much as security firms. [...]
KUWAIT 21/10/2004 Trafficking in Debt The International Strategy Group consortium which has been trying for [...]