PricewaterhouseCoopers

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Audere, Pantheon Intelligence, C4I, and Cassini Conseil

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

LondonAudere networks with chambers of commerce

LincolnDrone pilot Daniel Whorlton moves into consultancy

ParisConsultancy partnered with GEODE laboratory impresses defence ministry

WashingtonMacMurray moves to C4I, sheds other activities

France
Consultants with classified clearance focus on French defence supply chains

The French government claims it is trying to limit outsourcing but a recent report from the finance inspectorate reveals that even some foreign consulting firms have classified clearance.

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Day renames Diligence, Parly goes solo, GoodCorp helps French anti-corruption, StoneTurn's UK cuts, Cooper aids FGS and Sanctuary, JS Held closures

Appointments, financial results, new contracts: each week, we report on events both big and small that matter in the global corporate intelligence community. This week, we go to Geneva, Paris, London, New York, Chicago, Sacramento...

Geneva Nick Day drops Diligence brand name

Paris Parly goes into consultancy

Paris/London GoodCorporation taps into anti-corruption sector

New York StoneTurn makes UK cuts

London Former Cameron strategist helps FGS and Sanctuary

Chicago/Sacramento JS Held waves bye to branches

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.

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McLarty and Ikea, UN investigator in Manchester, Avisa in crypto, SFO's Edwards, Houghton at Strategy&

Appointments, financial results, new contracts: each week, we report on events both big and small that matter in the global corporate intelligence community. This week, we go to Brussels, before heading to Manchester and then on to Paris and London.

Brussels Ikea to turn to McLarty over possible Belarusian prisoner links?

Manchester New investigation firm for the UK's North West

Paris Avisa Partners counts on fledgling RAID Square for crypto-investigations

London Former SFO Kellie Edwards goes solo

London Houghton advises Strategy&, drops Crossword

Saudi Arabia
MbS's reform of Saudi space sector homes in on Saudi Space Commission

Tightening his grip on Saudi Arabia's space sector, Mohammed bin Salman ordered the restructuring of the Saudi Space Commission (SSC) into an agency at the expense of strategic prerogatives.

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BDO, Ed Vaizey advises Altermind, Williamson at Control Risks, Treliant back in the game

Appointments, financial results, new contracts: each week, we report on events both big and small that matter in the global corporate intelligence community. This week, we go to New York, London and Paris.

New York BDO's forensics boss dismissed

London/Paris Ed Vaizey advises Actum and Altermind

London Hugo Williamson back to corporate intelligence

New York Treliant moves into compliance and investigations

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EIB increases investigations spending, Nardello, Herminius, TDI Sustainability, Enyo

Appointments, financial results, new contracts: each week, we report on developments big and small in the global corporate intelligence community. This week, we report from Luxembourg, London and Brussels.

LuxembourgEIB boosts corporate intelligence budget.

LondonFCDO veteran Kilby joins Herminius.

LondonFormer Alaco staffer becomes MD at Nardello's London office.

BrusselsEuropean Commission brings in specialist conflict minerals investigators.

LondonEnyo sends in lawyers to ICSID

France
London's Aperio keeps faith in Paris opportunities

Still hoping to carve a niche for itself in the French corporate intelligence world, Aperio Intelligence has overhauled its Paris office.

Germany, Iraq
Monarch well placed for contract to audit future new elections in Iraq

With Iraq still without a government, German company Monarch has already been able to carry out a real-life test of its democracy protection service. The privately owned group carried out physical and cyber security audits during the country's last parliamentary elections.

Spotlight | United States
Kroll, JS Held, Ankura, Big Four: corporate intelligence giants battle for market supremacy

Faced with a booming and rapidly consolidating investigations market, corporate intelligence companies are trying to steer a course through uncharted waters.

India
Offset specialist Rajiv Chib wants to assist more French defence groups in New Delhi

The founder of Insighteon Consulting firm, who was spotted recently at France's Eurosatory trade fair, is already working for a number of Western defence groups in India's complex business environment, where there has been a sharp increase in the imposition of financial penalties for non-respect of offset agreements.

The Tech Times
Thales and PwC, FiveCast, Flashpoint, and US drones think-tank

From SIGINT to GEOINT and OSINT and a dose of cyber, each week we report on events both big and small that matter in the community of technical intelligence providers.

BrusselsThales and PwC, the European Commission's threat intelligence providers.

Arlington/AdelaideAustralia's FiveCast loses US national security market guru.

New YorkEvan Kohlmann, the second Flashpoint co-founder to jump ship.

ArlingtonFaced with China, Mitchell Institute reinvents itself as a designer of drone policy.

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Hakluyt, ADIT/ECCO, FTI Consulting

Appointments, financial results, new contracts: each week, we report on events both big and small that matter in the global corporate intelligence community. This week, we go to Washington, London, Singapore and Paris.

New YorkHakluyt brings in hedge fund veteran.

ParisAlain Fernandez brings ADIT and ECCO closer together on offsets.

London/SingaporeCrédit Suisse not doing well against former Georgian president despite FTI Consulting's help.

Spotlight | United States
UN agencies beef up due diligence

Increasingly conscious of reputational and corruption risks, UN agencies are discreetly beefing up their compliance and due diligence, supplied by a diverse array of consulting firms in this sector.

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Control Risks Group, Tata Consulting Services, Volexity, Maisha Group

Appointments, financial results, new contracts: each week, we report on events both big and small that matter in the global corporate intelligence community. This week we go to London, Singapore, Paris and Tel Aviv.

London, Singapore Control Risks Group snaps up Big Four veteran investigator Michael Peer.

Paris Ex-head of international cooperation at ANSSI joins India's Tata Consulting Services.

Paris US firm Volexity steps into French market with hire of Kaspersky CTI specialist Paul Rascagnères.

Tel Aviv, London Report highlights Israeli anti-poaching specialist Maisha Group.

Kazakhstan
ENRC trio and KNB win against US oil company

Kazakhstan's recent victory over Big Sky Energy at the ICSID has brought to an end years of investigation involving both the founders of ENRC and the country's intelligence service.