Stablecoins
One of my favorite books on markets & trading is "Reminiscences of a Stock Operator". It chronicles the ups and downs of Jesse Livermore's life as a trader in an era where bucketshops were the norm for ordinary folk and only very few had access to
Defi
Find out the biggest innovations that are setting crypto up to displace the most ingrained TradFi systems Interest rates play a crucial role in markets as they determine the cost of money over time. This, in turn, acts as the essential benchmark against, which all other financial assets are priced.
Community update
GM Florence family The new version of our Protocol has now been running for over a month without any fault. In streamlining how the protocol works, we introduced a new overarching token that will serve as the base currency (unit of account) for all Lending Vaults of the protocol: the
Defi
Find out how this $150 million investment in Real World Asset Lending is supporting our vision at Florence Finance Our friends over at MakerDAO have put their money where their mouth is, and together with Centrifuge, have made one of the most significant on-chain investments ($150m) into real-world assets to
Let me start by declaring that I am a massive proponent of blockchain technology and in particular what I think it can do to address the opaqueness and excessive leverage in our current financial system. .....That said, last year's events have again made it painfully obvious that we
Dear Community, First of all, we want to wish you all the best for the new year. I know it's been a bit quiet from the front as markets have been puking and the breaking of the "number go-up" tech that we usually depend on to
Florence Finance
The demise of free banking and the birth of central banks centralized the process of credit creation around the beginning of the 20th century. At the time this was a vast improvement over the "rogue" free banking landscape and must be appreciated as such, but as time progressed
announcement
Florence Finance is proud to announce that it has funded an additional €500k junior real-world loan to lending partner SwishFund, this brings the total of our junior loans funded to SwishFund to €1.5m. We are making great progress in our mission to bring real-world assets and real yields on-chain.
announcement
Florence Finance & Caple fund the first €1.0M in real-world loans: We are pleased to announce that we have provided two loans in the form of 12-month working capital facilities to two distinct SME players in the Dutch healthcare market with clearly defined business strategies. The first €500k was
Defi
The impact of stablecoins on banks: Are stablecoins the killer DeFi application and what, if any, is the impact on TradFi if they achieve mass adoption? That is the topic that I have been pondering and I want to share some of my thinking... not as conclusive arguments but more
Lending
As the Duke of Florence and an ex-banker myself I feel it my duty to write a piece where I delve into non-bank SME lending and explore the scale of the SME funding gap and how at Florence Finance we are striving to address this issue. Buckle up anon. Small
announcement
Just over a year ago I seed-funded Florence.Finance with five other founders that believed in the idea of building a crypto-funded, Euro-denominated, SME lending business initially envisaged as a "safe haven" to weather the crypto winter. Since then we have raised more than 3 million USDC through