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Palestine, Russia, United Kingdom, United States
The Preventive Security's concerns in Palestine, US-Ukraine intelligence-sharing under threat, UK Joint Intelligence Organisation appoints new China analyst, pay rises planned for Russian investigators

Appointments, reforms and key issues: every Monday, Intelligence Online reports on developments great and small in the global intelligence community. This week, we bring news from Ramallah, Moscow, Washington and London.

The Intelligence Gazette
Tracfin, Shin Bet in Cairo, FSB's coast guards, the SBU

Appointments, reforms and key issues: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets of news, big and small, from the global intelligence community. This week we hone in on Tracfin, Shin Bet in Cairo, FSB's coast guards, the SBU.

FranceTracfin seeks new chief to boost technical department.

Israel/EgyptRonen Bar on reconciliation mission in Cairo.

RussiaFSB coast guards take the plunge.

UkraineDeath a regional SBU head sparks probe.

Russia
Moscow stirs up personal data hornet's nest

Personal data, biometric data, civil registration: Russia's lawmakers have been tweaking the law to give its security services greater control of these hot-button files.

France
Tracfin to speed up cryptocurrency investigations with private help

France's financial intelligence service Tracfin is looking to strengthen its capacities in response to the rising numbers of illegal transactions involving cryptocurrencies, at a time when ransomware attacks and sanctions evasion are increasingly rife.

France
Paris banks on big data to counter foreign economic threats

A finance ministry agency that plays a lead role in protecting France from economic interference, the SISSE, wants to detect threats to strategic assets more effectively by processing big data.

The Intelligence Gazette
SVR, Tracfin, Romanian cyber, French prison intelligence

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

RussiaSVR awards artists' prize.

FranceTracfin places focus on transparency

USWashington provides close cyber support to Romania

FrancePrison intelligence struggling

France
Elysée Palace weighs in to solve French intel staffing woes

Understaffed units, top-heavy management, recruitment difficulties and brain drain are among the human resources challenges that intelligence coordinator Laurent Nunez's team has been entrusted with tackling.

France
Macron gets intelligence services battle ready to protect elections from potential foreign interference

Unlike previous presidential polls, the Elysée is mobilising intelligence services on an unprecedented scale to secure the next election. Behind France's dedicated new agency Viginum, the DGSE, the DGSI and Tracfin are actively trying to prevent new foreign interferences.

France
Tracfin's next director to start with a full plate of challenges

Because of its broad scope, the French financial intelligence service Tracfin, if used well, could become a handy intelligence warfare tool. But after Maryvonne Le Brignonen's controversial directorship the unit is facing numerous challenges, both internal and external.

France
Tracfin still waiting for its 'Sirano' big data platform

Although French financial intelligence service Tracfin has grown fast in line with its growing responsabilities in recent years, it has been finding it more difficult to keep its technical capacities up to speed. Its 'Sirano' big data platform programme, which was first developed by Capgemini, is running five years late.

Spotlight | Europe
Tracfin weighs in on international financial intelligence effort against violent far-right organisations

French financial intelligence service Tracfin appears to be manoeuvering so as to mobilise its European counterparts regarding the issue of the financing of violent far-right organisations.

Spotlight | France
Lagrange, French intelligence's covert technical forum

After a dozen years of existence, the informal Lagrange grouping of the DGSE and the technical directorates of France's other intelligence services seem to be more called on than ever.

France
Start-up Serenicity quickly finds place in France's intelligence community

After initially offering its services to small companies, the French cyber security company is now working increasingly with the French security services.

Europe, Netherlands
Netherlands ramps up economic security

The Dutch external intelligence service has issued fresh warnings about corporate spying of the country's businesses by China, Russia and other foreign powers.

France
Rolland's eviction as territorial intelligence chief causes stir

Well-connected official Bertrand Chamoulaud is being tipped to replace the woman who was removed last week as the head of France's SCRT.

France
Tracfin's role in combating predatory foreign investment gets it a seat on the DGSE's joint technical platform

As part of its expanded powers in line with the French government's focus on economic intelligence, Tracfin, the French financial intelligence service, has gained entry to one of French intelligence's holy of holies, the joint technical platform, or PTM.

France
French financial intelligence takes one further step towards European and international cooperation

The French government has issued a decree stating Tracfin will cooperate with its foreign counterparts, particularly within the EU, as Brussels has requested for a while.