Fintech
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Financial technology, that is, technology (usually information technology) that is focused on finance. uncountable
"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."
- 2 Alternative letter-case form of fintech. alt-of, countable, uncountable
"In a March 2018 document, the FinTech banks were defined by the ECB as banks with “a business model in which the production and delivery of banking products and services are based on technology-enabled innovation” (ECB 2018b)."
- 3 Alternative letter-case form of fintech. alt-of, countable, uncountable
- 4 A company in the finance sector, such as one dealing with payments, fundraising or loans. countable
"Nubank is a fintech that was founded in 2013 and entered the Brazilian market to compete with traditional financial services providers."
Example
More examples"I tried to listen to the latest episode of that fintech podcast, but the audio quality was so bad that I couldn't get past the first five minutes."
Etymology
A clipping of finance technology.
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