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DMCC initiative to host diamond financing seminars

DUBAI, April 24, 2015

The Dubai Diamond Exchange, a DMCC initiative, is planning to hold three seminars on diamond financing this year, underscoring the growing importance of the issue for the global diamond industry.

Finance and liquidity was one of the most hotly debated issues at the recently concluded Dubai Diamond Conference 2015, with more than 150 industry experts joining in the fifth and final panel of the event, Diamond Finance, said a statement.

As the diamond industry has shifted from West to East, helping to establish Dubai as one of the top three diamond hubs in the world with more than $30 billion of diamonds traded a year, the finance industry has followed suit to provide the liquidity necessary for the trade to operate efficiently.

Gautam Sashittal, chief executive officer of DMCC, said: “The diamond trade in Dubai is ably supported by a growing number of local and international banks bringing about new methods of financing the diamond industry.

“This will ensure that Dubai's pre-eminence as one of the leading global centres for the diamond industry continues to grow.”

The conference panel debated the most important topics to the diamond finance industry including transparency and the ways in which banks are granted access to company data.

Peter Meeus, chairman of the Dubai Diamond Exchange and panel moderator, added: “Financing is the single most important issue for the diamond sector at present.” - TradeArabia News Service




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