## Financial Technology Industry Overview

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What is FinTech?

![FinTech Definition Video Thumbnail;](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/assets/images/FinTechVideo_Thumbnail.png) Financial technology, also known as FinTech, is an industry composed of companies that use technology to make financial services, enable provision of financial services (through utilization of technology) or drive technological innovation in provision of financial services. Financial technology companies are startups or already established technology companies trying to replace or enhance the usage of financial services of incumbent companies. ## Elements of FinTech

![Robo Advisor](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/assets/images/robo_advisor.png)

### Robo Advisors

![FinTech Analytics](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/assets/images/analytics.png)

### FinTech Analytics

![Digital Currency](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/assets/images/digitalcurrency.png)

### Digital Currency

![Entrepreneurial Finance](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/assets/images/entrepreneurship.png)

### Entrepreneurial Finance

![Block Chain](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/assets/images/blockchain.png)

### Block Chain

![Risk Management](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/assets/images/riskmanagement.png)

### FinTech Risk Management