fintech

noun

fin·​tech ˈfin-ˌtek 

plural fintechs

: products and companies that employ newly developed digital and online technologies in the banking and financial services industries

The impact that fintech is making throughout our economy is still in its infancy stages. Fintech is really just about innovating and bringing solutions to the banking, lending and capital markets.

—Jason Raznick

—often used before another noun

the fintech sector

… a leading fintech firm, a new breed of companies that offer loans through online platforms.

—Hugo Martin

From payments to wealth management, from peer-to-peer lending to crowdfunding, a new generation of startups is taking aim at the heart of the industry … . Like other disrupters from Silicon Valley, "fintech" firms are growing fast.

—The Economist

also : a business that uses or creates such technologies

Traditional banks are eager to court fintechs as clients, partners or vendors—often in all three roles at once.

—Mark Calvey

Examples of fintech in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Kotecha, who started his career at Jack Dorsey’s fintech, Block, had been at Paxos for more than three years and was working on tech to simplify how companies plug into different DeFi markets, like Aave. —Ben Weiss, Fortune, 14 Apr. 2026

The fintech company used the latter two data points to estimate residents’ leftover savings, pinpointing where people can stretch their income further while still benefiting from the amenities of rapidly growing cities. —Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 9 Apr. 2026

Intuit, the fintech company behind TurboTax and Credit Karma, is also hiring more early career developers who have grown up using AI and may understand it better than mid-career workers, Alex Balazs, Intuit’s chief technology officer, said in an interview. —Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Money, 8 Apr. 2026

Emily Mason writes on the convergence of social media celebrity, fintech infrastructure, digital asset promotion and politics. —Emily Mason, Bloomberg, 7 Apr. 2026

Word History

Etymology

short for financial technology

First Known Use

1971, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for fintech

• aztec
• breakneck
• codec
• exec
• mixtec
• paycheck
• pinchbeck
• recheck
• redneck
• toltec
• beck
• breck