Bank Account / IBAN: Data Point Intelligence Guide
Money leaves a trail in fixed-width fields. An IBAN names the country, the institution and often the branch before you...
Sanction / Watchlist Entry
Sanction / Watchlist Entry: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A sanctions hit is not an answer. It is a name, a legal basis and a programme code telling you...
Stock Ticker / Security: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A ticker is the shortest string that opens a company's entire regulated paper trail. Four characters, and the filings, the...
Transaction Hash: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A transaction hash is the one financial record that is permanent, publicly verifiable and impossible for the counterparty to alter...
Cryptocurrency Address: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A blockchain address is a pseudonymous account with a permanent, public and complete transaction history. That combination makes it the...
CBRN Intelligence (CBRNINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear risk is monitored by an unusually open international architecture. The intelligence value is in reading...
Maritime Intelligence (MARINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Ships are legally required to announce themselves. The interesting behaviour is what happens in the minutes after a vessel stops...
Government Intelligence (GOVINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Decisions are made by named people, in named bodies, under written procedures. Government intelligence is knowing which body, which person...
Reference Intelligence (REFINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Most wrong conclusions can be traced back to two records an analyst believed were about the same thing. Reference intelligence...
Open Source Intelligence (OSINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Open source is not free intelligence. It is unvalidated raw material available to anyone, including your adversary, and the discipline...
Sanctions Intelligence (SANCINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
A sanctions hit is not a finding. It is the start of one, and the work is proving whether the...
Financial Intelligence (FININT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Follow the money is a cliche because it works. Financial intelligence is the discipline of following value through the institutions...
Economic Intelligence (ECONINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Economic intelligence is how you see a disruption forming while it is still a shipping rate, an export licence and...
Corporate Intelligence (CORPINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Every company is a legal fiction held together by filings. Corporate intelligence reads those filings to establish who is actually...
Accounting Intelligence (ACCTINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Financial statements are an argument, not a record. Accounting intelligence is the discipline of testing whether the argument actually holds....
Risk Analysis: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
The evacuation decision was made three days after the intelligence supported it. Nobody lacked information. What was missing was a...
Energy Security: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
Two things tell you a country is in trouble before its ministers do: how fast its gas storage is emptying,...
WMD / Proliferation: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
Proliferation networks do not buy weapons. They buy vacuum pumps, maraging steel, frequency converters and flow-forming machines, each individually unremarkable...
Corruption & Governance: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
Grand corruption almost never appears in a budget line. It appears as a contract awarded in nineteen days to a...
Sanctions Evasion: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
Sanctions evasion leaves a documentary shadow: a new intermediary in a familiar corridor, a vessel that stops transmitting for eleven...
Anti-Money Laundering: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
Money laundering intelligence is not about spotting dirty money. It is about spotting structures whose only purpose is to make...
Financial Crime: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
Most financial crime cases are not cracked by a clever trade reconstruction. They are cracked by an entity that should...
Weapons Trafficking: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
Most weapons in an illicit market were legal once. The investigative question is not where the gun came from but...
