This article analyzes the main features of international financial markets growth from the second half of 1980. It is stated that the sharpening of financial deregulation has modified competence terms among intermediaries whereas national financial structures weaken and the States become...

This article seeks to contribute to the academic debate regarding financialization, through an analysis of its evolution in Mexico. As we argue, Mexico has been at the forefront of the tendencies and historical events that have defined financialization at the global level. Moreover, Mexico is...

This paper argues that a fundamental aspect of the process of financialization is the transformation and evolution of certain key institutions. In national spaces, these include those that play essential roles in financing economic activity, such as the central bank and the commercial banking...