Youssef Cassis is a Professor at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute in Florence, and Director of the European Research Council funded project MERCATOR, 'The Memory of Financial Crises: Financial Actors and Global Risk'. His work focuses mainly on banking and financial history, as well as business history more generally. He is the author, among others, of Capitals of Capital: A History of International Financial Centres, 1780-2005 (Cambridge University Press, 2006, 2nd ed. 2010) and Crises and Opportunities: The Shaping of Modern Finance (Oxford University Press, 2011).Giuseppe Telesca is a tutor in Contemporary Economic History at the University of Glasgow. From 2021 to 2024, he was a research fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute in Florence, where he worked on the European Research Council funded project MERCATOR, 'The Memory of Financial Crises: Financial Actors and Global Risk'. He has published on the memory of financial crises, the evolution of financial elites, the history of the Italian banking system, and the relationship between sport and business.