When Minister Ponatshego Kedikilwe Talks – Diamond People Listen
April 02, 09 by Chaim Even-ZoharSomething odd is going on in Botswana. A few days after the publication of a tender for the GDV position , Minister Kedikilwe suggested that he “is reviewing whether or not to withdraw the tender.” Read More...
Financial Kit Bag Questions
March 26, 09 by Chaim Even-ZoharThe Diamond Trading Company (DTC), in preparation for its Diamond Bankers Seminar that took place this week in London, sent out a questionnaire to participants containing a number of what we call in Israel “kit bag questions.” This expression can be traced back to basic training in the army. Read More...
Gangster Viciously Implicates Antwerp Diamond Dealers
March 19, 09 by Chaim Even-ZoharIn a scene that might have been taken out of a novel, Leonardo Notarbartolo, the mastermind behind the $100 million diamond heist-of-the-century from a vault beneath the Antwerp Diamond Center, has now made a “prison confession” alleging that he was the victim of a sting. Read More...
A Banker’s Doublespeak
March 12, 09 by Chaim Even-ZoharThere are plenty of instances when a diamantaire tries to take his bankers “to the cleaners.” There are instances where an insolvent diamantaire will pay trade debts and leave the banks waiting. Read More...
The Return of the Industry Custodian
March 05, 09 by Chaim Even-ZoharWill De Beers survive? This was one of the responses in our inbox to last week’s editorial, “Giving Credit to De Beers”... Read More...
Giving Credit to De Beers
February 26, 09 by Chaim Even-ZoharThe publication of the De Beers annual results has always represented an occasion for considerable pride in which the chairman would face analysts and journalists. Read More...
In Court Of Public Opinion: Kimberley System vs Accountability & Transparency
February 19, 09 by Chaim Even-ZoharThe KPCS is not a private business. The members are representatives of 49 governments who take the position of their respective governments. Read More...
Botswana: Crisis Opens a Window of Opportunities
February 12, 09 by Chaim Even-ZoharA few hours at the 2009 Mining Indaba conference in Cape Town was sufficient to hear enough De Beers-related gossip to keep any investigative journalist busy for months researching whether or not there is fire burning under all the smoke. Read More...
Can Alrosa “Survive” its Government’s Bailout?
February 05, 09 by Chaim Even-ZoharIn the current crisis environment, in which every rough diamond carat supplied to the market may be one carat too many, Alrosa is perceived to be acting responsibly and admirably by taking itself “out of the market” and, instead, selling its current output to the federal government’s Gokhran precious stones and metals depository. Read More...
Watch the Emerging Diamond Funds
January 29, 09 by Chaim Even-ZoharThere are a number of diamond/commodity linked structured products (derivatives) on the market, which ostensibly, or potentially, provide investors with considerable upside gain when cashing in on the rising value of the underlying diamond commodity. Read More...
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