List of hackathons about fintech in 2015

ServiceDesignSprints.com connects SMEs, such as retailers and franchises, Sprint Masters, certified professionals to improve and completely transform the service of a business experience in just 4 days. Ans so, this 4-day hackathon aims to redesign a business service experience. You will learn how to perform sprints design services sprints design. The boot-camp has an 8-hour practice session with experts for you to become certified as Sprint Master and will be part of the serviceDesignSprints.com community, a growing community of service designers who are delivering changes for small and medium businesses around the world.

OneTraction is an Open Innovation Accelerator in Silicon Valley founded by Harvard, Stanford and Google alumni, to help next generation startups launch disruptive products that solve real life problems. Running a global network of entrepreneurs, thought leaders, mentors and investors for aspiring and current founders amongst the entire technology ecosystem around the world. This event is open to those who work, start, mentor and fund tech companies. The type of work to be completed for this hackathon is: a) - A very complex solution to a very large market and cannot create an MVP in two days and add it to you application. b) - Team have a very simple solution to common problem and can create an MVP in two days and add it to your application The prizes are given to winner to accelerating towards a successful startup launch and expanding their hackers network with industry expertise. The challenge is to develop something that is able to launch an MVP within 60 to 90 days!

Genius Incubator and The Open Bank Project present the Indian edition of the Global FinTech hackathon series “Hack/Make The Bank” for brainstorming and software creation leveraging à set of available APIs in order to prototype the future of banking. Participants will receive a host of application programming interfaces (APIs) and services they can leverage to bring their idea to life. You can come alone or join a team. Mentoring sessions will be provided for guidance and a demo from your hack will be presented to a panel of bank executives, FinTech entrepreneurs and the general public at the end of the day.

HackYourPhD brings together PhD students, young researchers, engineers, contractors, designers, etc. who are interested in the topic of Open Science. This time, the Hackathon will be devoted to proposing online voting for the first time bringing together researchers, datascientists, lawyers, associations and activists who wish to evaluate the impact of this initiative, and enhance voter participation.

ETSINF, School of Computer Engineering of Valencia, joins together with GeeksHubs Academy to host a Hackathon for students to develop their project into a prototype. Using the lean canvas technique, each team will put their idea into a business perspective. After this is done, student will develop their project into a product according to the business plan that they have agreed on. This hackathon is aimed for students who are interested in turning their idea into a real start-up!

A talk by Anthony Catt Managing Director of Oxygen Startups, one of Europe's oldest Accelerators, about life Behind An Accelerator, the global FinTech and start-up scene, and New York versus London environment.

An after party for to celebrate the ending of the first ever FinTech weekends Break The Banks Hackathon and FinTech Power Brunch, gathering participants, innovators and leaders in the FinTech, finance, business and technology worlds. Byte Academy specialises in domain-oriented coding as the first ever coding bootcamp in the world with a FinTech program.  It is also the first coding bootcamp in New York City to teach Python. Come and celebrate the first ever FinTech Weekends fusing both business and financial skills with technology skills and join the amazing community.

FinTech Hackathon Slovenia 2015 main's theme is HalmBills - a new mobile wallet developed primarily for invoice payments with e-invoices instead the physical form. The app you develop should be able to top-up and payout to your bank account, pay invoices, management invoice issuer, and make peer-to-peer payments. An open API for making payments will be provided (think about Paypal, Stripe, Square, Google Wallet, Apple Pay, Venmo etc.). This open API is the focus point of this Hackathon and will be specified and presented in detail before the event takes place.  So come, develop, connect with fellow developers and companies, win amazing prizes and get the chance to create your idea in Halcom Studio or get a buyout offer from Halcom!

TransferWise is a major financial institutions through Enables people to send money internationally online using a peer-to-peer marketplace charging drastically lower fees than the major wire transfer services. With "Break The Banks Hackathon" we want you to utilize modern technologies to distort the current banking systems in order to benefit the customers. We want to look at real issues and help create solutions for some of the industry’s biggest problems. During the weekend you will be learning new skills, creating amazing connections, you will get non-stop food and drinks, as well as tech tools and other goodies.   TransferWise & Co are offering cash prizes and business support for the top teams and ideas coming out of the weekend.

Ragusa Digital is hosting #GaranziaHack, an initiative promoted by the Garanzia Giovani programme. The contest is targeted at young people aged between 15 and 29 who took part in the Garanzia Giovani project, carried out by the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy to develop a prototype of an innovative app that will evoke the professional skills of members of Garanzia Giovani, facilitating the matching for job searches. The winning project will be awarded a grant of 10,000 Euros, as well as the possibility of developing the official app for the Garanzia Giovani project.