high finance

American  

noun

1. large-scale financial transactions or institutions.

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Etymology

Origin of high finance

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

The original mortgage bond market had come into the world in much the same way, messily, coaxed into existence by the extreme interest of a small handful of people on the margins of high finance.

From Literature

The Altar, a health club opening in New York this fall, is the brainchild of a group of founders with backgrounds in high finance and fashion.

From The Wall Street Journal

As time moved on and English top flight football came to be dominated by high finance - and United were able to generate more of it than anyone else - no-one remotely thought history might repeat itself.

From BBC

A man who spent most of his professional career in the unforgiving world of high finance, he was a senior figure in companies holding investment portfolios in the billions of pounds.

From BBC

"Even in the world of high finance, this court cannot endorse a proposition that finds a misstatement of at least $812 million dollars to be 'immaterial,'" he wrote.

From Reuters