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What is a keiretsu?

What is a keiretsu? Here are some definitions.

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He said Singapore banks should avoid the problem now posed by Japan's keiretsu system, which links a group of companies with a main bank.
The keiretsu system of interlocking cross-corporate ownership made it next to impossible to identify the real owners of Japanese capital.
Once bitter rivals, they were effectively forced together as the unwinding of Japan's keiretsu led to increased rivalry at home.
The weak control over lending was allowed because of the keiretsu tradition, which links companies with their banks via complex cross-shareholdings.
It's a system that locks together the interests of venture capitalists, bankers, lawyers, and entrepreneurs, much like Japan's keiretsu.
Until the mid-1990s about half of equities in Japan were held by banks, a legacy of the keiretsu cross-shareholding networks.

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