
87 episodes

The Rapaport Diamond Podcast Rapaport
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4.3 • 3 Ratings
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Senior Analyst Avi Krawitz hosts this show with deep analysis and hard hitting interviews. The Rapaport Diamond Podcast is your gateway to the diamond industry.
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Rapaport Market Comment: How the Federal Reserve Impacts Diamond Demand
What does the Federal Reserve’s interest rate decision have to do with the diamond industry? Well, pretty much everything if we want to understand the slow market environment that we continue to experience.
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Episode 84: Sanctions, Hong Kong and AI
Rapaport Editor in Chief Sonia Esther Soltani chats with Senior Analyst Avi Krawitz and News Editor Joshua Freedman, highlighting the major events, trends and quirky news stories that have shaped the diamond industry in the first quarter of 2023.
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Episode 83: NDC Plans Synthetics Myth-Busting Campaign
David Kellie, CEO of the Natural Diamond Council, chats with Rapaport’s Avi Krawitz about the organization’s latest projects — including a rebuttal to the lab-grown sector’s sustainability claims, a path to partnering with other sectors of the trade, and the group’s ongoing work with brand ambassador Lily James.
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Episode 82: The Path Toward Sustainability
Iris Van der Veken, executive director of the Watch & Jewelry Initiative 2030, discusses with Rapaport’s Avi Krawitz the organization’s immediate and long-term goals, how the luxury brands are approaching sustainability challenges, and how to raise the bar when it comes to issues such as climate change, gender equality, and governance.
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Episode 81: The Importance of Tracking Your Diamond
Frederik Degryse, CEO of iTraceiT, a new platform that aims to validate a diamond’s origin and journey, chats with Rapaport’s Avi Krawitz about the rising demand for traceability programs and the challenges providers of such services face in facilitating diamond-origin claims.
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Episode 80: Selling Diamonds on Instagram
Sam Karmiel, owner of Icerock Diamonds, discusses the learning curve he experienced as his business shifted focus to selling expensive diamonds via Instagram.