fintech
/ˈfɪntɛk/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.86 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Financial technology, that is, technology (usually information technology) that is focused on finance.
Uncountable
noun
A company in the finance sector, such as one dealing with payments, fundraising or loans.
Countable
Example Sentences
- "A wave of financial-technology (or “fin-tech”) firms, many of them just a few years old, are changing the ways in which people borrow and save, pay for things, buy foreign exchange and send money."
- "2016, Laura Sanicola, Will fintech help or hurt traditional advisors?, CNBC Financial technology, commonly known as fintech, has exploded globally since 2008."
- "2016, Martin Wolf, Good news — fintech could disrupt finance, Financial Times Why might one hope that new financial technology, or “Fintech” as it is known, will transform these businesses?"
- "Fintech was every banker’s buzzword at the World Economic Forum."
- "2016, Frank Sorrentino, For Fintech Disruptors, Regulatory Freedom Will Be Fleeting, Forbes Lacking their size, scope, geography, capital or insurance; fintech companies have established themselves as free, to an extent, from the regulatory scrutiny that governs traditional financial institutions."
- "Nubank is a fintech that was founded in 2013 and entered the Brazilian market to compete with traditional financial services providers."
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Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Finance.