A Belgian diamond trading organization complained to the European Commission against De Beers after one of its non-Sightholder members “was surprised and shocked to discover that a representative from DTC had visited two of his... Read More...

It was just another sunny May day in Illinois, when Madison County Circuit Judge George Moran Jr. entered a default... Read More...

In terms of anti-money laundering (AML) and combating the financing of terrorism (CFT) legislation, the Indian diamond... Read More...

Alrosa President Alexander Nichiporuk has decided that out of his conglomerate’s total diamond production of some $2 billion a year, about 30% is... Read More...

Any rough diamond parcel traveling in transit through Dubai finds its value “mysteriously” ... Read More...

Last week we reflected on the anti-monopoly investigation against Alrosa and the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) in respect to Alrosa’s differential rough ... Read More...

Federal investigators charge that Alrosa may have supplied affiliated diamond factories with rough diamonds at concessionary prices and thus... Read More...

When an Israeli banker recently remarked that the local industry’s banking debt was well beyond $2 billion, we joked that collecting that debt will be the problem of one of his own... Read More...

While everybody seems to be focusing on whether or not the Value Added Services of the DTC represent a price increase there are other aspects to the new... Read More...

The diamond industry should prepare itself for a new wave of intensified demands for consumer boycotts, for diamond value chain monitoring and... Read More...