After training as a bank clerk, Jens Holeczek was responsible for the distribution of electronic payment solutionsand the bank’s sales orientation on digital channels at a bigger German Cooperative Bank. After a short excursion into the project businessat a consulting companyin 2001, he took over divisional responsibility for card payment transactions, digital payment transactions and media sales at his former bank. After various extra-occupational courses of study and the associated acquisition of the board qualificationleading banks, five years followed after 2015 in sales consulting and project support at a cooperative regional association with many sales projects in the cooperative institution group. Since 2020, he has been the BVR’s group manager primarily responsible for digital payment transactions, online banking and related offerings such as digital identity, digital euro and commercial API schemes and services. For the Digital Euro, he is one of the three project leaders for the cooperative finance group in Germany, a member of the steering team of the German Banking Industry Committee for the Digital Euro, one of the co-authors of the white paper “Europe needs new money –an ecosystem of CBDC, tokenised commercial bank money and triggersolutions”)* of the German Banking Industry Committee and a member of the Market Advisory Group of the ECB for the Digital Euro.