When flights are midair, the expected arrival time often remains “not final” until the plane gets close to its final destination. The 79 Diamond Trading Company (DTC) Sightholders are still in the air. The final contract will land on their desks... Read More...

Our columnist, Chaim Even-Zohar, is on leave. He wishes all of you a merry Christmas and a Healthy and Prosperous New Year. Read More...

Forget the news of the revised Diamond Trading Company (DTC) Sightholder list. A far more significant De Beers decision, which was posted this week through an innocuous letter on the DTC intranet, will have far more ramifications than anything else on future Sightholder status and the meaning of Sightholder value. Read More...

German political economist and sociologist Max Weber once defined “power” as the ability to impose one's will "even in the face of opposition from others." The internal corporate power plays at De... Read More...

Sierra Leone plans to join the diamond beneficiation craze that is already redefining the diamond scenes in the southern African countries. Read More...

Our recent comments about De Beers risking damage to its own brand equity by failing to enforce Best Practice Principles (BPP) did not specifically address a much more potent issue: what are the ramifications of non-compliance on the overall... Read More...

The widely reported public letter sent by the Diamond Manufacturers & Importers of America (DMIA) to the Diamond Trading Company’s (DTC) managing director Varda Shine, evokes a variety of mixed emotions. The exercise through which a... Read More...

The moment of truth has arrived. The gulf between De Beers' management’s endless speeches about Best Practice Principles, business ethics and integrity and its own enforcement of these principles... Read More...

If, for many years, you have been addicted to Diamond Trading Company (DTC) Sights and suddenly face life without them, don’t despair. The DTC is about to launch its “Sightholder Support Programme, a package designed to assist those clients who will no longer be Sightholders from 31st... Read More...

When the European Court of First Instance annulled the European Commission (EC)-De Beers agreement in which De Beers committed itself to cease rough diamond purchases from Alrosa after 2009, we concluded that the EC may have no choice but to reconsider... Read More...