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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.

• 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
  

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.

• 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

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.

• 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
  

• LUXEMBOURG - EIB boosts corporate intelligence budget.
  

• LONDON - FCDO veteran Kilby joins Herminius.

• LONDON - Former Alaco staffer becomes MD at Nardello's London office.
  

• BRUSSELS - European Commission brings in specialist conflict minerals investigators.
  

• LONDON - Enyo sends in lawyers to ICSID

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.

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.

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.

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.

• BRUSSELS - Thales and PwC, the European Commission's threat intelligence providers.

• ARLINGTON/ADELAIDE - Australia's FiveCast loses US national security market guru. 

• NEW YORK - Evan Kohlmann, the second Flashpoint co-founder to jump ship.

• ARLINGTON - Faced with China, Mitchell Institute reinvents itself as a designer of drone policy. 

• NEW YORK - Hakluyt brings in hedge fund veteran. 

• PARIS - Alain Fernandez brings ADIT and ECCO closer together on offsets.
  

• LONDON/SINGAPORE - Crédit Suisse not doing well against former Georgian president despite FTI Consulting's help.
  

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.

• 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.

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.

Arqit plays key role in big quantum encryption projects under development in US and UK 

London-based Arqit, which is a key partner of the UK's GCHQ and the US Air Force, is setting the pace in government research on quantum encryption and key distribution in the US and the UK.