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Money: Historical and contemporary perspectives

This event took place at King's Business School on 1 October 2025. Over the course of history, money has relied on trust. Mario Pisani argues that trust is a function of the capacity of state institutions to safeguard the value of money. Fundamentally, this is because traditionally the safest assets have been those that give you a claim on the state itself: state-issued money, central bank assets, or government securities. He explores how central banks and treasuries have through history directly or indirectly underpinned trust in money. Rhys Bidder looks at these debates from a contemporary perspective – acknowledging that many novel forms of money are currently emerging, stimulated in part by the advent of blockchain. While technological advances may be new, trust in central banks and in governments’ fiscal rectitude continue to be key – not only in the context of CBDC and tokenized deposits, but also, perhaps less obviously, in the case of stablecoins.