high finance
noun
: activities (such as buying companies and investing in stocks) that involve large amounts of money
the world of high finance
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In the world of high finance, tariffs rarely get the spotlight for their second-order effects.
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Jeff Fromm, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
In The Money Trap, Sama recounts high-stakes negotiations, global deal-making, and the moral dilemmas of high finance.
—Mario Gabriele, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
Basic-rate taxpayers are burdened with navigating tax complexities typically reserved for high finance, compounded by frequent, multi-year, multi-blockchain transactions.
—Susie Violet Ward, Forbes, 24 Nov. 2024
While viewers have speculated about connections to major financial institutions, the creators have left Pierpoint's exact inspiration intentionally vague, allowing the show to stand independently while evoking the general atmosphere of high finance.
—Maddie Garfinkle, Peoplemag, 1 Sep. 2024
Industry, in large part, examines the particular, even idiosyncratic dynamics between old and new money in the often vindictive world of high finance.
—Caroline Reilly, Robb Report, 12 Aug. 2024
This was a few years after Bear Stearns collapsed, and the ensuing crisis had thrown a harsh light on the win-at-all-costs ethos of high finance.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 9 Aug. 2024
Alumni contributions are solicited so that students can be sent to Wall Street to learn about life in high finance.
—Matthew Crenson, Baltimore Sun, 3 Mar. 2024
And in the 2010s, high finance reached the agencies: by 2014, private equity had acquired Creative Artists Agency and William Morris Endeavor, and the latter had purchased IMG.
—Daniel Bessner, Harper's Magazine, 21 Mar. 2024
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Jeff Fromm, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
In The Money Trap, Sama recounts high-stakes negotiations, global deal-making, and the moral dilemmas of high finance.
—Mario Gabriele, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
Basic-rate taxpayers are burdened with navigating tax complexities typically reserved for high finance, compounded by frequent, multi-year, multi-blockchain transactions.
—Susie Violet Ward, Forbes, 24 Nov. 2024
While viewers have speculated about connections to major financial institutions, the creators have left Pierpoint's exact inspiration intentionally vague, allowing the show to stand independently while evoking the general atmosphere of high finance.
—Maddie Garfinkle, Peoplemag, 1 Sep. 2024
Industry, in large part, examines the particular, even idiosyncratic dynamics between old and new money in the often vindictive world of high finance.
—Caroline Reilly, Robb Report, 12 Aug. 2024
This was a few years after Bear Stearns collapsed, and the ensuing crisis had thrown a harsh light on the win-at-all-costs ethos of high finance.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 9 Aug. 2024
Alumni contributions are solicited so that students can be sent to Wall Street to learn about life in high finance.
—Matthew Crenson, Baltimore Sun, 3 Mar. 2024
And in the 2010s, high finance reached the agencies: by 2014, private equity had acquired Creative Artists Agency and William Morris Endeavor, and the latter had purchased IMG.
—Daniel Bessner, Harper's Magazine, 21 Mar. 2024
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“High finance.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/high%20finance. Accessed 6 May. 2025.
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