We also envision a more resilient and profitable banking system as banks improve their ability to anticipate and manage risks, perform their functions of intermediating funds to the broadest set of users, and providing alternative investment vehicles to savers.
Politically, for example, currency and coin can act as a “vector for the construction of a … polity and political community”.1 Currency and coin can thus play a role for citizenship. Take the role of the euro in building European identity and citizenship, for example.2 This is true at national level, too.