Turning digital identity, payments and digital money into competitive advantage.
We help financial institutions, technology companies and the public sector make the right strategic, product and technical decisions where digital identity, payments and digital money converge — and turn those decisions into products that work.
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Where we work
Three domains, one mandate.
We work where digital money, digital identity and payments converge. Our projects combine strategic, product, regulatory and technical expertise to address questions that increasingly cut across traditional industry boundaries.
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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
Payments are changing from inside and outside the traditional stack
Our work cuts across the technologies shaping these ecosystems — from AI and authentication to security, interoperability and emerging wallet technologies.
Why etonec
What clients get from working with us.
- 01
We connect the domains.
We work where digital identity, payments and digital money converge, and our projects combine strategic, product, regulatory and technical expertise.
- 02
We combine strategy and technology.
From strategic decisions and product concepts through architecture, prototypes and implementation.
- 03
We stay senior.
The person who scopes an engagement is the person who delivers it — no account layer, no juniors on the file.
- 04
We contribute where the ecosystem is being shaped.
We take part in the consortia, associations and projects shaping tomorrow’s standards and infrastructure, and validate client work against that network.
Consortia
WeBuild, Aptitude
Industry associations
Bitkom, Digital Euro Association
etonec is a specialized consultancy working with financial institutions, technology companies and the public sector. Our team combines backgrounds in payments, identity, digital money, product, regulation, architecture and security.
How we work
A defined path from strategy to launch.
- AssessmentUnderstand the market, regulation and what it means for you.
- DesignTurn that into a strategy, proposition and solution design.
- Build & GTMValidate, support implementation and prepare it for market.
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
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