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United States
Washington gets ready for currency war with Beijing and Brussels

US lawmakers are considering whether to set up an Office of Strategic Currency Diplomacy, which would be more active in countering efforts of rivals to undermine the dollar's dominance in global finance.

China, France
Chinese nuclear officials visit research and higher learning sites in France

After visiting genomics and biotechnology research showcase Genopole near Paris last week, a delegation from the Chinese state-owned nuclear giant, China National Nuclear Corp, is heading to Lyon and Cadarache.

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.

Belgium, Bulgaria, Italy
Fake EU intelligence service ECIPS relays Kremlin rhetoric

For more than a decade, the European Centre for Information Policy and Security has been wrongly claiming to work on behalf of EU secret services. The man at its helm is a Belgian entrepreneur known for his links to organisations close to Russia.

France
French intel sets pay scales for contract workers for the first time

To ease competition between French services vying for certain profiles of contractors, particularly in the cyber field, the country's intelligence and counterterrorism coordinator has decided to introduce salary scales.

The Intelligence Gazette
DNRED's new deputy director, ex-DNI at Columbia, strategic funds in Australia, Sciences Po Paris boss heads east

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

FranceNew deputy director appointed at DNRED

United StatesFormer DNI Avril Haines returns to Columbia

United Kingdom/AustraliaCould Canberra follow example of UK's sovereign wealth fund?

FranceHead of Sciences Po Paris expected in China and Japan in October