This document discusses Société Générale's experience using Axon Framework to build microservices for their global financing business. It describes how they adopted Axon Framework in 2015 to build a single platform for financing across 4000 users, using domain-driven design and event sourcing principles. Some key benefits noted are improved security, loose coupling between services, and promotion of good software practices like separating business logic from infrastructure. Challenges and lessons learned are also discussed around skills, tooling, event handling, and testing distributed systems.