Changing Money: Communities, Longer Term Finance and You

Speaker(s):   Ian Harris

Date/Time:  16/11/2010, 6pm

Venue:  Museum of London

Ian Harris, Director, Z/Yen Group

In a world where technologies enable our communities to be at once local and global, the very essence of money is changing.  We are living longer, yet our financial infrastructures are inherently short term.  Young people seeking responsibly to plan their futures and their retirements find the conventional world of finance baffling and mostly inappropriate.  This lecture explores these trends and looks to the future of money as a unit of account, a medium of exchange and as a store of longer-term value.