Relations between Venezuela and Colombia have had good times, of harmony, friendship and good neighborliness, and hostile times, that are complicated and with backs turned to the 2,219 kilometers of problems we share. In the 20th century, the best decade was that of the nineties, where through the mechanisms created...
On January 4th, we woke up to a significant spike on our illicit trade in luxury products signal driven by queries on the Chinese Wikipedia page for World Luxury Association. The World Luxury Association website has long been deemed suspicious, to say the least, as it "registers" brands that hardly...
by Vanessa Neumann On 12-13 December 2016, the UN Security Council's Counter-Terrorism Executive Directorate (CTED) hosted a joint special meeting of the ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee, Member States, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and other relevant international and regional organizations on “Depriving Terrorist Groups from Accessing, Raising,...
by Ms. Alexis Corn Last month, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EUI) released a report that evaluates illicit trade environments in 17 countries in Asia. The report (found here and the graphic found here) graded countries on four policy areas: intellectual property, transparency and trade, customs environment and supply and demand....
We woke up on the morning of July 7th to find our signals on PMI (Philip Morris International) and Tobacco popping, by 3.98 and 3.60 sigmas respectively. That's what we call 'an anomaly.' At Asymmetrica, we like anomalies: our SIGINT and our data analytics platforms are designed to identify them,...
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