Risk & Co

France
Greenpeace strengthens investigations division with corporate intelligence hiring

Private investigation companies and advocacy NGOs are building bridges as the former professionalise their intelligence collection.

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.

France, Russia
As top French firms quit Russia, what next for their local security contractors?

Russian private security firms, known as "chops", are continuing to prosper in Moscow, even though some of their top clients from France - CAC40 companies - are pulling out of the Russian market.

The Corporate Intelligence Village Voice
Othrys, Ercom, Hart Security, Risk&Co

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 and Paris.

LondonA TV producer at the helm of intelligence firm Othrys.

ParisErcom and Suneris made full Thales units with Cyril Autant appointment.

LondonHart Security to dispatch intelligence experts to UK's most at-risk embassies.

ParisRisk&Co brings ex-Amarante manager Dimitri Akarawitage to boost corporate security management line.

The Corporate Intelligence Village Voice
Risk&Co, Inter-Mediate, Thales

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 Paris and London.

ParisLe Floch's arrival helps Risk & Co further accentuate its shift towards cyber.

LondonThales adviser Lord Nick Houghton questions AUKUS in the House of Lords.

LondonGilles de Kerchove begins his reconversion at Inter-Mediate.

France, United Kingdom, United States
Erys, Hakluyt, Veracity, Amarante, KPMG

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 Paris, London and New York.

France
Security stalwart SSF looks to boost its business intelligence practice

Scutum group subsidiary SSF has produced a background checking system to enable TV producers to avoid employing candidates and actors with dubious credentials.

France
World War II bombs halt Commando Hubert in its tracks

The French Navy's celebrated Green Berets will have to wait before they get their new abseiling training facility: following a survey by Geomines that revealed the site was littered with unexploded bombs and ammunition, the defence ministry has issued a tender for their removal.

France
Anticip circles cyber firm Bertin

Anticip, the private security firm headed by Richard Terzan and Cyrille Peguilhan, has recently explored acquiring Bertin Technologies. The cyber [...]

France
DGSE supplier Bertin Technologies on the block

With the demise of CNIM, which pledged to look for a buyer at the Paris Commercial Court in May, according [...]

France, Saudi Arabia
French and Russians repatriated from Riyadh

Shortly after Saudi Arabia closed its borders on March 15 in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, two planes from Paris' [...]

France
Risk&Co's new owner Anticip starts hiring again

While it continues to slash staff at Risk&Co, which it [...]

Europe, Morocco
Security companies head for Casablanca

According to our sources, the British political risk and private security firm Control Risks Group (CRG) is considering of opening [...]

France, United Kingdom
Aperio staves off a potential hacking attack

Christopher Peters, the director of operations of the corporate intelligence [...]

France
Anticip takes reins at Risk&Co

According to our sources, the takeover of the private security company Risk&Co by its rival Anticip will be signed in [...]

France
Richard Guillet sells ICS to focus on bug-sweeping association

Richard Guillet, a former DGSE naval commando and a well-known figure among France's bug-sweeping community, is poised to sell his [...]

France
Risk&Co and Geomines may part

Discussions are well underway with prospective buyer Batipart, the group [...]

France
Jean-Louis Fiamenghi launches RfP for Veolia's investigations

Veolia security chief Jean-Louis Fiamenghi has invited a handful of [...]