The BoC Fintech Hackathon 5.0 has arrived!

Depy Douros
The crowdpolicy collection EN
2 min readAug 7, 2024

18th-20th October 2024, IDEA Innovation Center, in Nicosia

For the 5th time Bank of Cyprus in collaboration with the innovation and technology company, Crowdpolicy, are organizing the 5th BoC Fintech Hackathon 5.0, focused on innovative technologies in the financial sector (Fintech), on October 18–20, 2024. It will be held in person at the IDEA Innovation Center.

Developers, startups, professionals, students, and anyone interested in participating and actively contributing to the development of applications that promote innovative youth entrepreneurship and the development of services and applications in the fintech sector can participate in the BoC Fintech Hackathon 5.0.

The goal of the BoC Fintech Hackathon 5.0 is to create innovative solutions around Fintech, up to the stage of a Minimum Viable Product (MVP), with the prospect of future development into fully functional applications.

Through the upgraded open banking APIs (sandbox) and the SDK (Software Development Kit), the Bank of Cyprus will provide technological support for the teams’ applications to incorporate innovative features such as payment processing and the development of services utilizing transaction data in a secure manner.

For the teams that will excel, there will be significant monetary and other prizes, which you can see below:

  • 1st place €5,000
  • 2nd place €3,000
  • 3rd place €2,000

An additional €2000 for the best utilization of Jinius APIs.

Register now at BοC Fintech Hackathon 5.0: https://bochackathon.com/register

The Challenges

The applications developed by the teams can address the following challenges with appropriate business and technological solutions, though these are not mandatory:

  • Generative AI & Language Models
  • Digital Euro
  • Digital Twins
  • Building Information Models
  • Conversational Banking
  • Real Estate

Participants will also have the opportunity to discuss and develop their ideas with professionals in the field.

The BOC Fintech Hackathon 5.0 receives additional support from sponsors:

The BoC Fintech Hackathon 5.0 is conducted with the technological and business support of the innovation company Crowdpolicy.

Learn more: https://bochackathon.com/

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