0 a person who has control of a large amount of money and can give or lend it to people or organizations
1 someone who controls a large amount of money and can give or lend it to people or organizations
2 a person or company that controls large amounts of money, for example providing money for investment, or arranging loans to companies:
He knew the financier very well, and knew that he was, with all his subtle cleverness, a man of spotless honor.
If big financiers are not at their back, I repeat: where does all the money come from?
To attain such an eminence, the astute financier knew as well as any that only one thing was really necessary—namely, money.
When he gets that done he's going to be busy using it, either to straighten out his own financial affairs or to down or suppress some financier that has busted in on his plans.
Her development path hence led not to growing economic independence but to an increasing reliance on the benevolence of foreign financiers and trading partners.
The war brought financiers and industrialists to the fore for various reasons.
Becoming a player in this system was enormously expensive : the advances made were underwritten by a series of loans between financiers.
