Anticip

France
Former Risk & Co security veterans regroup at My Protection Hub

A group of former executives of the security provider Risk & Co, which imploded in 2023 after years of erratic management, is resurrecting its core business in Africa and the Middle East.

France
Bruno Delamotte returns to the world of private security with SSF

Out of the security business since his ouster from Risk & Co in mid-2017, corporate intelligence veteran Bruno Delamotte is returning to the market as an adviser to Scutum International Solutions Group.

France, Iraq
French security firms struggle to get foot back in Iraq

The promise of contracts tied to large infrastructure projects made by Baghdad raised high hopes among French security specialists, particularly GEOS and Amarante. But these opportunities have yet to materialise.

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
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
Erys struggles to retain clients

Erys Group, which is caught up in a shareholder dispute [...]

Europe, France
Malta-based Sentinel's Southern Mediterranean empire grows

Security firm Sentinel Atlas, which obtained the contract to protect the French embassy in Kabul, in partnership with the private [...]

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 [...]

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
Risk&Co and Geomines may part

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

France
Risk&Co deadline approaches

According to Intelligence Online's sources, bidders for the private security [...]

France, Iraq
Laurent Wauquiez under close protection in Baghdad

According to our sources, Laurent Wauquiez, the head of France's Les Republicains political party, was protected by the private security [...]

Spotlight | France
Struggling private security sector faces further concentration

Confronted with their traditional clients' harsh budget cuts and in the absence of solid alternative revenue streams, a number of French private security firms look set to merge or fold.

Europe
G4S chosen to guide EU security mission in Iraq

The British private security giant G4S has been contracted to protect the European exploratory mission that has been set up [...]