Vessel / Ship: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A ship can change its name, its flag and its owner in a week. The IMO number assigned at build...
Sanctions Evasion
Shipment / Bill of Lading: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A bill of lading names the shipper, the consignee and the goods on the same page. It is the closest...
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...
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...
Legal Entity Identifier: Data Point Intelligence Guide
The LEI is the closest thing global finance has to a universal entity key, and unusually for identity data it...
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...
Logistics Intelligence (LOGINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Goods leave a paper trail long before they leave the warehouse. Customs declarations, manifests and trade statistics describe physical movement...
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...
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...
Aviation Security: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
A cargo operator with three aircraft filed forty-one flights in a month, all into the same two airports, all with...
Maritime Security: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
The vessel reported itself in the Gulf of Oman. Radar put it alongside a sanctioned tanker four hundred miles away....
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...
Supply Chain Security: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
You do not have one supply chain. You have a graph nobody has ever drawn. The compromise usually enters at...
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...
Mining & Resource Crime: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
Gold laundering does not require a refinery that knows it is complicit. It requires one refinery that accepts a dore...
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...
