disintermediation

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  1. noun Withdrawal of funds from intermediary financial institutions, such as banks and savings and loan associations, in order to invest in instruments yielding a higher return.

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  • Money began to flow out of savings accounts and into these new funds, in a process known to banking specialists by the sonorous term "disintermediation."
  • But to the savings banks and S&L's, disintermediation was a mortal threat.
  • What Myhrvold meant by disintermediation was the removal of gatekeeping functionality, or middle men, between purveyor and consumer. —  News on Anchorage Press
  • A clunky buzzword of the past few years has been "disintermediation," a classy Latinate term for the obsolescence of the middleman. —  CJR
  • Implicit in disintermediation is a lot of revenue just plain disappearing. —  HorsesAss.Org
 

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