Securitization, in this sense, has little to do with any notion of economic or financial security: it names a technique or technology for achieving moment-to-moment advantage by counterbalancing risks, and also the impulse to customize, collateralize and synthesize multiple (often conflicting and contradictory) forms of volatility and chance. … Financialized subjects are to relinquish any hope of actual security and, instead, become savvy virtuosi, counter-levering life's uncertainty into opportunities for self-maximization.

Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, loc. 258