A core goal of finance is allocating resources efficiently, which depends on access to good information and to capital. Digital humanities share this aim of using digital tools to widen access and produce insight from large amounts of data. Digital finance extends financial services to firms that traditional banks underserve, and large datasets let researchers measure the results across thousands of companies.
Digital Humanities wants to make large number of texts legible through computational analysis. Where close reading interprets one text carefully, distant reading finds patterns no individual reader could see, recurring aspects across thousands of documents, structural absences in an archive.
Both goals are about scale enabling claims that individual attention cannot support. Finance wants to know whether digital finance improves ESG across an economy, not in one firm. DH wants to know what changed in a literary culture across two centuries, not in one novel. These also connect because it is about moving large amounts of information and making it more accessible.