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.

20+Years in payments
10+Years in digital identity
10+Years in digital money

Across the team, spanning multiple continents and markets.

How we work

A defined path from strategy to launch.

How we work
  1. AssessMap the landscape, the obligation, and the opportunity.
  2. DesignDefine the proposition, journeys, and architecture.
  3. ValidateValidate with external subject-matter experts and ecosystem players.
  4. BuildWe help you build and integrate it — you own and execute, we stay on the work.
  5. Go-to-MarketDefine where to launch, in which sequence, and when.

Team

Direct access to our senior specialists.

Marcus Nasarek

Marcus Nasarek

Technology, Regulation

Nancy Timm

Nancy Timm

Product Management, Payments

Jonathan Knoll

Jonathan Knoll

Sales & Business Development

Dr. Jonas Gross

Dr. Jonas Gross

Strategy, Public Policy

Matt Aberdein

Matt Aberdein

Product Innovation, AI

Anneke Breust

Security, Engineering

Meet the team

References

What our clients say.

Selected work

What our clients hire us for.

Internal note: this section needs new content from us — the two engagements below are placeholders standing in until real material lands.

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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.