MI6

United Kingdom
Toro Risk Solutions, the UK financial watchdog's trusted cybersecurity firm

The London-based cyber-risk management specialist is forging closer ties with sections of the UK government just as it invests in private security and investigation.

The Corporate Intelligence Village Voice
Control Risks Ukraine, Arcanum, Horizon Engage, Schillings

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

KyivControl Risks looks to expand in Ukraine

WashingtonSpecial forces veteran joins Arcanum

New York/LondonPatrick Lord hired by rebranded Horizon

LondonEx-FCDO staffer goes to Schillings

United Kingdom
Burstock, a lair of seasoned diplomats on hand for North Macedonia's EU bid

Burstock International, a small government and business advisory, has built up a workforce of former diplomats and military intelligence officials with experience in Eastern Europe and the Balkans.

United Kingdom
UK Foreign Office moves to tighten financial intelligence ties in the Caucasus

The British government intends to boost cooperation with the region's financial intelligence services in order to better face the risk of Russian sanctions being circumvented via the region.

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WestExec, Elicius, FCDO security in Warsaw, G3

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

LondonElicius Intelligence expands

WashingtonWestExec Advisors boosts advisory team

LondonPilgrims Group stays by FCDO

LondonPeter Enskat promoted CEO of G3

United Kingdom
Private security consultant Deverell never far from Foreign Affairs Committee projects

The former senior military officer John Deverell has not stepped too far away from his former employer, the British Foreign Office, which is now calling on his expertise in counter-terrorism.

United States
New Washington-area nonprofit aims to thwart Moscow's attempts to weaken democratic governance

The Dekleptocracy Project wants to see officials of autocratic regimes and their corporate, legal and financial enablers in the West named, shamed and prosecuted. The group's co-founders, a former Pentagon official and a corporate intelligence specialist, view Vladimir Putin's Russia as an "existential threat".

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Apertus goes Spanish, Zenobia, Vesper, LB International Solutions, Blackpeak

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

Madrid/Paris/LondonApertus welcomes Spanish member

LondonFirst anniversary for Feghali and Stone's Zenobia Intelligence

LondonVesper Group puts down British roots

WashingtonLydia Borland bolsters squad of Ankara lobbyists

LondonBlackpeak gets new UK office director

United Kingdom
UK's Foreign Office, Russia Unit and MI6 lead fight against Wagner

The British Foreign Office and the intelligence services attached to it are at the centre of an inter-ministerial mechanism coordinating the fight against the Russian private military company Wagner, mainly through counter-disinformation.

France
DGSE recruitment drive hampered by security vetting procedures

France's external intelligence service has announced plans to recruit 800 new staff in 2023 but some candidates are being discouraged by its cumbersome recruitment procedures

Spotlight | United States
SPAC Chain Bridge implosion threatens to dash intelligence officers' dreams

Retired officials with the CIA, MI6, DIA and Pentagon have key roles with Chain Bridge I, which is bleeding cash. The fund's top executives include veterans of CIA-linked venture capital firm In-Q-Tel and several ex-intelligence operatives who currently work for Beacon Global Strategies.

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Avisa parties, Alexandre Benalla in London, Strider Technologies, T&M USA

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

LondonAvisa's relaunch parties

London/ParisAlexandre Benalla bounces back in London

LondonDavid Kilby quits Herminius for Strider Technologies

New YorkEx-FBI chief Thomas Sheer advises T&M USA

The Intelligence Gazette
Ukraine's SSSCIP, Foreign Affairs Committee, China experts at Foreign Office, Wiretapping radicals

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

UkraineSpecial communications service wants more soldiers

United KingdomForeign Affairs Committee calls on intelligence experts to tackle terrorism mission

United Kingdom/ChinaForeign Office builds expertise on China

FranceIntelligence tensions over the surveillance of radical movements minimised before parliament