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This paper aims to analyze financialized peripheral neoliberalism (FPN) as a specific form of neoliberalism. After presenting four different forms FPN can take and criteria to delimit them, its general characteristics are examined. The paper highlights a common policy matrix, a similar model of production structures focused on financial accumulation, and a common formulation of international valorization processes. Comparing two countries that exemplify FPN (Argentina and Portugal), the above general characterization is corroborated. However, specificities in monetary regulation, international insertion and population regulation mechanisms are also observed, which give the model specific nuances important for analyzing crises and proposing alternatives for differently structured development policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]