Turning digital identity, digital money, and payments into competitive advantage.
We are a boutique consultancy helping organizations navigate and build next-generation financial infrastructure – from strategy and regulatory readiness through value propositions, product and technical architecture, and go-to-market.
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Where we work
Three domains, one mandate.
Most consultancies focus on one of the three. We focus on where digital money, digital identity, and payments converge — and the work our clients need sits in that overlap.
01
Digital Money
Navigate the shift to new forms of money, such as central bank digital currencies / digital euro, stablecoins & tokenized deposits.
02
Digital Identity
Turn identity from a compliance requirement into a strategic opportunity — across the European Digital Identity Wallet (EUDI) and comparable identity schemes globally.
03
Payments
Build the payment proposition for the next generation of rails
Why us
Four reasons clients call us first.
- 01
We shape where digital money, digital identity, and payments converge.
Most firms specialize in a single domain — identity, payments, or digital money. We connect all three, from strategy through architecture and implementation.
- 02
We deliver hands-on results, not (only) slides.
Engagements extend beyond recommendations into product design, technical requirements, architecture, prototypes, and pilot support.
- 03
We are in the rooms where the standards are set.
We sit inside the consortia and industry associations shaping this infrastructure, with board and working-group seats — insight ordinary market research cannot reach.
- 04
We get to the point and create value for money.
Practical and direct rather than abstract — senior specialists focused on decisions, value propositions, and product implementations, not lengthy frameworks.
Who we are
Deliberately small and senior — embedded in how this infrastructure gets built.
We stay deliberately small and senior — the person who scopes an engagement is the person who delivers it, with no account layer and no juniors on the file.
Where our view comes from.
We participate in the bodies building this infrastructure — consortia and industry associations — plus standard-setting and policy work. That participation, together with a network of ecosystem experts, produces the competitor, policy, and standards insight that shapes our advice.
Consortia
WeBuild, Aptitude
Industry associations
Bitkom, Digital Euro Association
How long we have been at it.
Across the team, spanning multiple continents and markets.
How we work
A defined path from strategy to launch.
- AssessMap the landscape, the obligation, and the opportunity.
- DesignDefine the proposition, journeys, and architecture.
- ValidateValidate with external subject-matter experts and ecosystem players.
- BuildWe help you build and integrate it — you own and execute, we stay on the work.
- Go-to-MarketDefine where to launch, in which sequence, and when.
Team
Direct access to our senior specialists.

Marcus Nasarek
Technology, Regulation

Nancy Timm
Product Management, Payments

Jonathan Knoll
Sales & Business Development

Dr. Jonas Gross
Strategy, Public Policy

Matt Aberdein
Product Innovation, AI
Anneke Breust
Security, Engineering
References
What our clients say.
Selected work
What our clients hire us for.
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Digital money strategy and roadmap
Assessing and shaping a digital-money strategy for an institution moving from awareness to execution.
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Identity mandate into product
Translating a regulatory identity mandate into a product opportunity, from architecture through pilot.
Insights
Recent viewpoints.
- Innovation Needs More Than Technology21 Jul 2026
- We Won. Now What?13 Jul 2026
- From crypto to infrastructure: Stablecoins kill correspondent bank latency8 Jul 2026
- What Libra Got Right: Christian Catalini on Stablecoins, AI, and the Future of Money22 Jun 2026
- What Happens When a Payments Guy Falls Down the Blockchain Rabbit Hole?12 Jun 2026