Abstract
This chapter shows how the Brazilian financial and banking system has developed from a geographical perspective. The origin of the national banking and monetary system is discussed at a time when financial institutions were completely local or regional. Since World War II, but especially from the Reform of the National Financial System of 1964/65, a process of intensification of the financial division of labor began, and non-monetary institutions directly linked to the financialization of the territory (mainly investment banks and stock exchanges) arise and develop. The more regionalized character of the financial system is replaced by a national bank-based oligopolized structure, with its core area in the city of Sao Paulo. It is also analyzed the substitution of face-to-face/presential banking service channels to informational/remote ones.
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