Choosing DTC Sightholders: A Game of Power, Principles and Profiles
December 06, 07 by Chaim Even-ZoharGerman 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’s Presidential Beneficiation Visions: A Reality Test
November 29, 07 by Chaim Even-ZoharSierra Leone plans to join the diamond beneficiation craze that is already redefining the diamond scenes in the southern African countries. Read More...
Is De Beers Running Scared?
November 22, 07 by Chaim Even-ZoharOur 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...
Rough Ethics in New York
November 15, 07 by Chaim Even-ZoharThe 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...
De Beers Must Enforce Its Best Practice Principles – Or Irreparably Damage its Brand Equity
November 08, 07 by Chaim Even-ZoharThe 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...
For Unsuccessful DTC Applicants: Sightholders Anonymous...
November 01, 07 by Chaim Even-ZoharIf, 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...
Deja Vu: Another EC Investigation into De Beers
October 25, 07 by Chaim Even-ZoharWhen 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...
A ‘Bloody’ Court Case in Switzerland
October 18, 07 by Chaim Even-ZoharJust imagine that you allegedly ran through a red traffic light and got caught. The police will investigate the circumstances of the offense. Then the press learns about it, and the morning after, news articles are implying or insinuating that you are being held on a triple-murder charge. Is this international disinformation? Or is it deliberate dissemination of false... Read More...
The Beneficiation of Antwerp
October 11, 07 by Chaim Even-ZoharOn the eve of the AWDC diamond conference, which will display Antwerp in its full glory, it is kind of amazing to reflect on what has happened in the city on the Schelde in just a little over a year. It was not so long ago, in January 2006, that Belgium’s Premier, Guy Verhofstadt, delivered an earthquake when he declared that the board of what was then still called the HRD.... Read More...
Basel II and Dave’s Brilliant ‘Financial Striptease’
October 03, 07 by Chaim Even-ZoharFew diamantaires have thoroughly analyzed the potential impact of the Basel II bank capital adequacy requirements on their businesses. It’s no wonder. Since the advanced economic and mathematical models that need to be developed by the banks are so complex and costly, the U.S. government has decided to have Basel II initially apply only to the 10 largest U.S. banks. In Europe and the rest of the world, banks aren’t that lucky. Read More...
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