List of hackathons about fintech in 2016

Developers from schools, startups, and private companies! Come and celebrate Sopra Steria's 15 year anniversary. Participate in a hackathon on the theme of security in banks! You'll also get the opportunity to learn about leading-edge technologies such as Lab Biz, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, IoT, etc. in discussions and presentations, which will be focused on the practical issues involved in their use.

Morgan Stanley and Stemettes invite you to a celebration of women in STEM. Routes to STEM is a panel discussion with a difference! It’s exclusively for 14-18 year-old young women, where you’ll hear all the different ways people begin their scientific careers. Topics that will also be discussed include apprenticeships, A-level choices, university degrees, work experience. You’ll be able to ask the panel questions, and network with each other and the experts!

Hong Kong fintech developer, entrepreneur, or designers hackers! Listen up! The BitwiseHacks Fintech Series Hackathon Part 2 is for you! Come and showcase your technical skills and creativity. Build a fintech app and pitch it with a live demo to the panel of judges. Your app should address a fintech issue such as: »Improving the Hong Kong banking system »Making Hong Kong less cash-dependent »Applications of blockchain technology

Developers, entrepreneurs, designers, business thinkers and creative types! Sign up for the Byte Academy x Startupbootcamp FinTech Festival Hackathon, which celebrates the launch of Byte Academy's Singapore location. You'll team up with like-minded individuals and collaborate to create solutions to designated FinTech challenges.

Fintech entrepreneurs and change makers! Do you have a new innovative FinTech idea, or an existing start-up? Come participate at ICE PITCH @FinTech Startups in Hong Kong! Showcase your innovative idea during the ‘100-hour Hackathon + Pitching’ event organized by Incu-Lab. Collaborate to gain exposure for your solution and compete to win prizes.

Brazilian hackers, designers, entrepreneurs, social activists, and more! Do you want to help break down the barriers to female entrepreneurship? Want to help more women enter and succeed in the technology sector? AngelHack invites you to come and participate in the Lady Problem Global Hackathon Series in São Paulo! You'll get to collaborate with like-minded women—and men—in an effort to build creative solutions to realize the potential of the female half of our world population! You'll be asked to hack a solution to one of the following challenges: Health: Help women access health resources to ensure that they can have successful careers, regardless of whether or not they choose to have children, or Safety: Help ensure that women can be safe when they go to, are at, and come home from work, or Economic Empowerment: Help women gain financial literacy and access the resources they need to grow their businesses, or Culture: Help women access better mentorship and feel less isolated in the workplace. Compete for an array of awesome prizes from sponsors and community parters including Women Who Code, IBM, Proctor & Gamble, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. The winning team in each city location of the Lady Problem Global Hackathon Series will be inducted into the AngelHack social good accelerator, a 12-week mentorship and acceleration program. Visit the hackathon tips pagefor the best advice on how to participate in the Lady Problem Global Hackathon!

Tech developers and business-oriented individuals! Interested in building something awesome in the Fintech space? Sign up today for the Fintech Hackathon in Bucharest. Showcase your creativity and hacker skills to create an amazing fintech solution. Maybe you can design and prototype a fintech solution that addresses one of the following challenges: »How could employees all be paid at the end of each day, or hour, or minute? »What would make it easier for Romanians living abroad to send money? »Can you build a bot to help users pay for stuff or send money to others?

Cryptocurrency techies — developers, security engineers, hackers, coders! Come participate in BmyBit Hackathon Tunis 2016 and help advance technology solutions for working with crypto-currencies and other crypto-assets. Your challenge will be to use open source tools to create a bot that interacts with an API for currencies exchange. Given an initial amount of fake BTC, your goal will be to make the maximum profit using BUY and SELL requests. The winner is the one with the highest BTC balance.

Interested in how the Sharing Economy applies to Insurance? Come and participate in the InsurTech Hackathon. Apply your skills and creativity to show how an insurance business model can be based on trust, authenticity, and transparency. Collaborate with like-minded hackers to use technologies like chatbots, drones, VR/AR, or AI/machine learning to create solutions to challenges posed by Insurtech's corporate insurance sponsors.

Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria invites you to join them in a 36 hour hackathon in which competitors will be challenged to disrupt how banking is currently run, with the best projects receiving big cash prizes! 100% of participation fees will be donated to non-profit organizations whose mission is to increase the penetration of Internet and technology entrepreneurship in Mexico. Create a team and show your innovations in topics like biometrics, Blockchain, cybersecurity, and Big Data.