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                                         WDC reasserted at the 2021 KP Plenary                                            in order to support long-term consumer confidence Speaking to the full assembly of delegates during the Opening Session of the 2021 Kimberley Process (KP) Plenary, World Diamond Council President Edward Asscher has reasserted the need for Kimberley Process members to agree to expand the conflict diamond definition in order to support long-term consumer confidence.   Asscher noted that the Plenary was taking place at a time when young consumers are increasingly expressing their demands for assurance about the social and environmental credentials of the products they buy, and highlighted that the diamond industry has the ability to deliver on these consumers’ expectations. But Kimberley Process members must act to expand the definition.   The five-day KP Plenary meeting began as a hybrid event, with in-person meetings taking place in Moscow, joined in videoconfe

  GDP is expected to decline by 9.5%!     “..If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it…”   The newly appointed Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) with Dr. Ashima Goyal, Professor Jayanth R. Varma and Dr. Shashanka Bhide as external members met on 7th, 8th and 9th October, 2020 in its first meeting and the 25th under the monetary policy framework that was instituted in June 2016.   The MPC evaluated domestic and global macroeconomic and financial conditions and voted unanimously to leave the policy repo rate unchanged at 4 per cent. It also decided to continue with the accommodative stance of monetary policy as long as necessary – at least during the current financial year and into the next year – to revive growth on a durable basis and mitigate the impact of Covid-19, while ensuring that inflation remains within the target going forward. The Marginal Standing Facility (MSF) rate and the Bank rate remain unchanged at 4.25 per cent. The revers

Tracr, the end-to-end blockchain Traceability developed by De Beers Tracr, the end-to-end diamond industry blockchain traceability platform being developed by De Beers Group in collaboration with key industry stakeholders, announced that Chow Tai Fook Jewellery Group (CTF) has joined the platform’s pilot programme.   Chow Tai Fook joins a range of other leading businesses from across the diamond value chain in piloting the next generation asset-tracking platform powered by blockchain and artificial intelligence. Chow Tai Fook will work with Tracr to support the objective of continuing to enhance consumer assurance over a diamond’s traceability, provenance and authenticity. Chow Tai Fook’s participation will further extend the platform’s reach into the Asian diamond sector, in particular in Greater China. This will help accelerate Tracr’s ability to fulfil its mission of working with the industry to build a digital ledger that spans the entire diamond pipeline, helping