There was much excitement last month when Lusix announced a $90m funding round, not least because LVMH was among the investors. The French luxury conglomerate now owns the iconic US jeweler Tiffany & Co. Lusix makes lab-grown diamonds... Read More...

Last year's cyberattack on Graff came as a stark reminder to the jewelry world that nobody's safety is guaranteed. Many months later it has emerged that the exclusive London jeweler handed over the Bitcoin equivalent of $7.5m to prevent the hackers who had already... Read More...

Investing in diamonds has always been a tricky business. On paper they may seem like an attractive option, especially at a time like this, when the markets are in turmoil and crypto is in freefall. But the thing that sets diamonds aside from precious metals or commodities... Read More...

"For of the three forces, the power of arms, the power of alliance and the power of money, the last might well become the most reliable instrument of war...". Already in 1795, in his Perpetual Peace essay, Immanuel Kant envisioned how economics would be weaponized in... Read More...

It seems to be business as usual at Alrosa. The US and the EU may have imposed sanctions designed to halt the flow of Russian diamonds, but you'd barely know it from upbeat comments made by the company's CEO Sergei Ivanov this week. Alrosa has no plans to scale back... Read More...

The Sterling gender bias case is finally over. It lasted almost 15 years and became "a hallmark of #MeToo activism". The jeweler was accused of "gender discrimination in pay and promotions practices" by a class of 68,000 women... Read More...

It's hard to believe that three years have passed since the diamond world last converged on Vegas. Who among the 30,000-plus visitors and exhibitors could have imagined that JCK 2020 and JCK 2021 simply wouldn't happen? That the world would be gripped by a global... Read More...

People do business with people they trust. People do not do business with businesses. The human connection, or lack thereof, is the number one determinant of a business's success. That's why trade shows and getting meetings are an important part of B2B marketing... Read More...

The fog of the Russian-Ukrainian war has hidden a major diamond battle that rages thousands of miles south-west to the Russian war zone. The President of Botswana, Mokgweetsi Masisi, speaking at a gala dinner in Gaborone, declared that "he no longer wished to operate under.... Read More...

Traceability was already a hot topic before Russia invaded Ukraine. Now it's even hotter. Guaranteeing a diamond's country of origin before 24 February may have been an attractive bonus. Today it's fast becoming an imperative, so that gems sold without evidence of ... Read More...