Interview with Michael Bagley, Principle of The OSINT Group
Eurekahedge
May 2009
Washington DC has become the de facto financial centre of the world in this global economic crisis. There has been a quasi-transfer of power from New York to Washington. A similar dynamic is unfolding elsewhere: economic power has shifted from Shanghai to Beijing, from Mumbai to New Delhi, and from Dubai to Abu Dhabi.
In both developed and developing countries, domestic political factors will drive the performance of national and international markets. As a result, the use of “political intelligence” by global financial institutions is quickly becoming an important factor to asset portfolio managers across all sectors.
The OSINT Group, a boutique private intelligence firm based in Washington DC, was established in 2007 to assist government sector and commercial clients in the energy and financial industries with unique “open source” intelligence collection and delivery. In addition to technology used by the US Intelligence Community, the firm uses its network of relationships and personal connections in Washington to gather “political intelligence” for international clients who need to better understand how and why the US government will influence the international financial marketplace.
