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

Regardless, the potential use cases are fascinating, as AI's scope expands from low-stakes chores to mission-critical operations across industries, from parsing medical results in healthcare to automating compliance and managing portfolios in fintech. —Thanh Pham, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025

Pedro Nunes | Reuters Revolut is widely seen as a potential future fintech IPO candidate. —Ryan Browne, CNBC, 15 Sep. 2025

Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg make up around a fifth of the collective fortune of all of America’s billionaires, thanks to their early innovation in social media, fintech, and e-commerce. —Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 4 Sep. 2025

Positions eliminated include 120 stage two technical support engineers, 41 reactive support managers, and 31 fintech analysts. —Aldo Svaldi, Denver Post, 3 Sep. 2025

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