Digitalized finance: Informatization at the service of financial globalization

Abstract

Based on reports and financial data, in-depth interviews with information technology and financial system experts, representatives of the technology industry, investors and various actors in the Brazilian capital market, we draw in this article, a brief overview of Digitalized Finance, here understood as the technical-operational complex of circulation, accumulation and valuation of financial capital through automated technology resources, which accelerate the compression of spacetime flows in search of speculative gains. We seek, therefore, highlight the influence of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the emergence and consolidation, especially from the 1980s, of a new globalized financial system operated in “real time” with intensive use of technological resources under the so-called finance-led regime of accumulation.