Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- -- Contents -- About Digitalized Finance -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Capitalism at the Beginning of the 21st Century: Globalized Finance -- Technics, Capital and Society: The Material Bases of Technological Development -- Digitalized Finance: Informatization at the Service of Financial Dominance -- Digitalized Finance in the Brazilian Context -- Final Considerations.

In Digitalized Finance , Edemilson Paraná investigates the relationship between the development of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and the process of financialization of economies on a global scale, particularly in Brazil. The book explains the influence of ICT in the emergence and consolidation, especially from the 1980s, of new forms of operation and management of the globalized financial system, highly connected, operated in “real time” with intensive use of technological features, and how these advances are related with the economic and social changes in question. It also describes how contemporary capital markets work, where the search for earnings is leveraged by sophisticated mathematical models, robots and automated trading software that seek financial gains in the milliseconds scale.