List of hackathons about fintech in 2020

SWIFT will hold an open API hackathon at its annual African Regional Conference (ARC), taking place on 21-23 April in Cape Town, South Africa. The hackathon is open to developers and engineers working in the financial sector who want to shape the future of Africa’s growing payments market. Over two days, teams of developers will be given access to a combination of SWIFT and industry APIs in an open sandbox environment provided by SWIFT. They will be asked to develop solutions to concrete, real-world challenges currently facing the payments industry in Africa. The teams will then pitch their work in front of an expert industry panel at ARC. The team that develops the most impactful solution will receive complimentary tickets to attend Sibos, SWIFT’s annual global financial conference taking place this year in Boston, USA in October. Developers from financial institutions, fintechs, telcos and universities in Africa who are interested in participating in the hackathon can find out more information and apply to participate by contacting: Nkiruka.Uwaje@SWIFT.com.

TheMESG Ecosystem Hackathonis the second online hackathon by the MESG Foundation. We’re looking for awesome MESG services and processes, or tools like wallets, explorers process builders or debuggers to interact with our blockchain built using Tendermint. Hackathon Details The hackathon will run fromMarch 1st to April 26th, 2020, online at Devpost. Developers at any skill level are more than welcome to join. We’ll be giving away $9,000 in prizes to developers who build tools, services and/or processes that show exceptional quality, originality, creativity, impact and usefulness. For inspiration,check out the winnersfrom 2019’s MESG Online Hackathon. See the full details and ruleson Devpost. Submissions now open Whether you’ve used Devpost before or not, registration is straightforward. Click the link to Devpost, log in or create an account, then click the “Register for this Hackathon” button. Bonus Services, processes or tools created in this hackathon will go live on the testnet, and can be upgraded to the upcoming mainnet. On the mainnet, service or process creators will have the opportunity to earn tokens each time their code is reused by others on the network. Also, other actors that want to support the network such as validators, emitters, executors, or block producers can earn tokens for their work.Learn more about the actors in the MESG economy.

DocuSign developers! If you're planning to attend the DocuSign Momentum Conference, then you're invited to participate in the annual pre-conference “Hack for Good” hackathon. You'll be challenged to integrate DocuSign’s eSignature API and other new APIs to solve a real-world environmental challenge. Come collaborate and compete for a great cause, a $2,500 grand prize, and your share in a $10,000 cash prize pool.

NextFebruary 28th and 29th, the 2nd edition of thisHackathon on Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learningis organized with a new partner, SESAMm. The event will be held the university Paris Dauphine and will gather students from leading French universities. Teams will tacklea specific challenge(to be revealed in real time) on the theme of applying artificial intelligence and machine learning approaches to anasset management problem. For24 hours, participants will be able to test theircoding skillsin artificial intelligence and machine learning. The winner will receive a2,000€ cash prize.The event is free, but space is limited,participants will have to register(and be approved) to participate. Registration are closed now. Thank you for your interest! Feel free to follow us on twitter, sesamm_inside to keep up with the ews about Hackathon. For more information on the Hackathon,click here. For more information on the LFIS & QMI research partnership,click here. Event location: Paris Dauphine University Place du Maréchal de Lattre de Tassigny 75775 PARIS Cedex 16 Directions toParis Dauphine University’s campus

HackLBS is the flagship Hackathon hosted by LBS since 2015. HackLBS brings together business professionals, hackers and designers enabling them to get their ideas off the ground and launch new ventures.We have now hosted 4+ weekend Hacks with 400+ attendees, which lead to exciting products and solutions designed in a pressure cooker environment.

Greetings from SASTRA University, Daksh, the techno-management fest of SASTRA University enters into its 14th edition the upcoming year with its theme being "Smart Living". This year, Daksh will play host to numerous multidisciplinary hackathons. The problem statements are presented by esteemed organizations, who are looking for students to provide a practical solution to real-world problems. Mail the abstracts to: hackathon.daksh@sastra.ac.in For further details visit: http://www.daksh.tech/ For queries fill in this form and we ll get back to you, https://forms.gle/5jFUwsrFvvPVUQFGA

Technical professionals and leaders in Paraguay! Koga Impact Lab invites you to attend the DEMODAY of the first edition of StartCamp. You'll get to see the 15 participating teams present their solutions to challenges in the fields of Fintech, Edutech, and Agrotech. The winning team will win $US3,000 cash, plus 1 (one) scholarship in the KOGA Transformers program, 1 (one) KOGA Bootcamp scholarship, plus additional prizes for a total value of $US6,600.

This year's hackathon will revolve on the theme: Building Better Technical Solutions For Our Community. The Hackathon will require solutions built on issues such as: • Technology in Health Care. • Technology in Education. • Smart Cities. • Technology in Retail.

Everybody has a creative potential, and from the moment one starts exploring their creative potential, they can start changing the world. We here at ACE want to give that opportunity to as many young minds as we can and have been doing so through HackVSIT for the past 2 years. HackVSIT 3.0 will be an event full of innovation, learning, and a lot of healthy competition! It is open to all developers, designers, entrepreneurs and even high school students who want to learn and explore their passion in technology. Registrations starting soon. Additional Details: Problem Statements / Themes : All teams will be provided with a set of problem statements. Each team is free to choose a track of its own interest. Selection Procedure : Teams will be invited for the Hackathon on the basis of their Projects, Github and Linkedin Profiles. Each team can have a maximum count of 4 members. After registration, and filtering, selected teams will be invited for the event! Date: 31st January - 1st February 2020 Register your team at: https://hack-vsit.tech/ We are waiting for you to come aboard. Let's code our way together, and make this world a better place with our solutions.

HackVerse serves as a platform to encourage enthusiastic minds to brainstorm on solutions for challenging issues from all over India. The unified motive of gathering all like-minded hackers to our alma mater is what led to the creation of the idea in NITK Surathkal, the first of its kind. We’ll provide a platform for innovations, where developers can test and showcase their potential to the best of their abilities. We also plan to have keynote talks and/or workshops for the hackathon participants from executives in the industry.