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- noun Application of financial engineering techniques in Japanese financial markets since their deregulation in 1984.
- noun Speculative financial investments, using simple financial leverage as well as financial engineering, in Japanese financial markets since their deregulation in 1984.
Etymologies
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Examples
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One focus will be the company's actions around the 2000/01 fiscal year, when Japan switched to market-value accounting and when many companies were forced to come clean on losses from so-called "zaitech" investment schemes.
Reuters: Top News 2011
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One focus will be the company's actions around the 2000/01 fiscal year, when Japan switched to market-value accounting and when many companies were forced to come clean on losses from so-called "zaitech" investment schemes.
Reuters: Top News 2011
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Companies routinely poured billions of yen into speculative trades - moves called "zaitech," or "financial techniques" - that turned sour when the bubble burst in 1990.
NYT > Global Home By HIROKO TABUCHI 2011
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Companies routinely poured billions of yen into speculative trades - moves called "zaitech," or "financial techniques" - that turned sour when the bubble burst in 1990.
NYT > Home Page By HIROKO TABUCHI 2011
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The stock-market bust in Japan was also far more lethal than in the United States because of cross-holding by companies of other companies 'shares (the zaitech craze, which was really just a fancy word for corporate gambling).
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It was an enthusiastic investor in derivatives and other risky investments under Toshiro Shimoyama, president from 1984 to 1993, who told the Nikkei industrial daily newspaper in 1986: "When the main business is struggling, we need to earn through zaitech - though doing too much is no good."
NYT > Home Page By HIROKO TABUCHI 2011
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It was an enthusiastic investor in derivatives and other risky investments under Toshiro Shimoyama, president from 1984 to 1993, who told the Nikkei industrial daily newspaper in 1986: "When the main business is struggling, we need to earn through zaitech - though doing too much is no good."
NYT > Global Home By HIROKO TABUCHI 2011
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Very Orwellian. zaitech ` Financial engineering in Japanese technology companies applied as a way of bolstering profits. '
ry commented on the word zaitech
this is very cyberpunk
October 22, 2020