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

Mid-cap and some small-cap stocks have greater exposure to manufacturing, fintech, consumer technology, and other sectors that are capturing a growing share of economic activity. — Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 22 Sep. 2026

Plans for a secondary listing would extend ownership in the refinery beyond the millions of Nigerians who have swarmed onto several fintech apps to subscribe to the offer set at 40 cents a share. — Alexander Onukwue, semafor.com, 16 Sep. 2026

Out of that question grew my fintech group delivering digital asset infrastructure and services. — Sergey Stopnevich, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026

Starmoire was co-founded by Katie Palencsar and Ruth Foxe Blader, who are fintech and venture veterans, and built the company around the idea that a wardrobe is a real asset and deserves to be managed just like financial assets and real estate. — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 14 Sep. 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