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fintech

Syllables: fin·tech/ˈfɪntɛk/

fintech noun: financial technology, that is, technology (usually information technology) that is focused on finance.

Noun (1)

fintech (countable and uncountable, plural fintechs)

  1. (uncountable) Financial technology, that is, technology (usually information technology) that is focused on finance.
    • 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.2013 August 3, “Revenge of the nerds”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847
    • Financial technology, commonly known as fintech, has exploded globally since 2008.2016, Laura Sanicola, Will fintech help or hurt traditional advisors?, CNBC
  2. (countable) A company in the finance sector, such as one dealing with payments, fundraising or loans.
    • Nubank is a fintech that was founded in 2013 and entered the Brazilian market to compete with traditional financial services providers.2020 February 11, Fernanda Pedreira, “Nubank: a fintech that finally nudges Brazil’s banking oligopoly”, in Harvard Business School, Digital Innovation and Transformation, MBA Student Perspectives...
    • Lines are often blurred when it comes to determining when a tech company becomes a FinTech. PayPal is an example of a FinTech that has been around since the late 90s, as have many other e-wallets and Payment Service Providers.2019 February 5, Banking Circle, “What is FinTech, and what does it mean for your business?”, in News and Events: Insights, archived from the original on 20 Feb 2020

Noun (2) capitalized: FinTech

FinTech (countable and uncountable, plural FinTechs)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of fintech.
    • 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).2019, Alessandra Tanda, Cristiana-Maria Schena, FinTech, BigTech and Banks: Digitalisation and Its Impact on Banking Business Models, Springer, →ISBN, page 88

Noun (3) capitalized: Fintech

Fintech (countable and uncountable, plural Fintechs)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of fintech.

Forms of fintech

pluralfintechs
alternative formFinTech
alternative formFintech
alternative formfin-tech
pluralFinTechs
pluralFintechs

Plural of fintech: fintechs

Origin of fintech

A clipping of finance technology.

Questions about fintech

What does fintech mean?
Fintech means financial technology, that is, technology (usually information technology) that is focused on finance.
What part of speech is fintech?
Fintech is a noun.
How do you pronounce fintech?
Fintech is pronounced /ˈfɪntɛk/.
What is the plural of fintech?
The plural of fintech is fintechs.

Words near fintech in the dictionary

  1. finswimmer
  2. finswimmers
  3. finswimming
  4. finta
  5. Fintan
  6. fintech
  7. fintechs
  8. Finton
  9. Fintona
  10. Fintons
  11. Fintown

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: fintech (page history and authors); FinTech (page history and authors); Fintech (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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