AGP Executive Report
Last update: 3 minutes agoM&A Momentum: LTM has offered to buy Randstad’s technology and consulting services business across France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and Australia for €160m (about €469m annual revenue), aiming to scale AI-led, domain-driven engineering, cybersecurity and IoT delivery with nearshore support in Romania and Portugal. Cybercrime Crackdown: Europol and Eurojust dismantled “First VPN” in Operation Saffron, seizing 33 servers across 27 countries and shutting down domains used by thousands of criminal accounts. Digital Identity at Borders: Europe’s Entry-Exit System logged 66m entries in its first six months, with daily fingerprint checks jumping from ~17k to ~87k, despite queue and rollout friction. UK–EU Politics: A Brexit negotiator warned Labour rejoining the EU would put Britain under the European Court of Justice’s jurisdiction. Luxembourg Tech & Industry: Amazon says it invested €1.9bn in Luxembourg in 2025 and supported 10,000+ jobs, calling the country a strategic European operations hub. Compliance Spotlight: Togo’s GRCRO summit returns to Lomé in July, focusing on fraud, corruption and money laundering in the age of AI.
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