Partnerships
During my studies in Monaco I met Steve Alain Lawrence, Chief Investment Officer of Balfour Capital Group, at an event held at Le Meridien in February 2025. It was a short evening, but the exchange we had afterwards was very enlightening.
What made it stay in mind was the way Steve handled the conversation. A financial executive who is willing to think through an unfamiliar question in real time is a specific kind of interlocutor, and I made a note to stay in touch.
Over the year that followed the exchanges continued around a small number of subjects that neither of us was quite finished with. Between January and May 2026 I completed my internship in Monaco, and during those months Steve and his team took the time to walk me through tokenisation as a working practice. They showed me the mechanics, the assumptions behind them, and a candid view of which structures hold up over time. Nothing was oversold, and I was allowed to ask the same question in a different form until the answer sat properly.
That grounding now sits alongside my own knowledge of the art market. What has grown out of it is a set of projects for Sabatier Art in Germany that would not have taken the shape they now have without those months in Monaco.
Steve Alain Lawrence brings long-standing insight into global markets. A regular presence at the New York Stock Exchange, he is valued for his bold clarity and measured judgment.
The relationship continues in a public form at the New York Stock Exchange. Steve and I speak regularly in an interview series produced by Victor Hugo Rodriguez, founder of FEMACRO Media. Rodriguez is a Venezuelan financial journalist. He founded FEMACRO to bring a serious Spanish-language voice to Wall Street, and he operates the platform directly from the NYSE floor.
Its programming reaches audiences across Europe and Latin America through its distribution partnership with Negocios TV, the leading Spanish-language business network, which since May 2026 has operated its own studio on the trading floor. The recordings air in a slot chosen for the moment when European and American markets sit closest to each other.
The exchanges are unscripted. We cover what actually interests both of us. How tokenisation is changing ownership across asset classes. How professional capital reads the current cycle. What long-term stability means when the underlying infrastructure keeps moving. Where cultural assets fit into any of it, which is the angle I bring. A selection of the recent episodes is embedded below in the order they were recorded. New conversations will be added as they air.
