Ecobank finetech challenge

It gives me pride and joy when such news shows up in my feed. This is a very good initiative by EcoBank as it gives the voice to most voiceless folks behind the keyboard.

We have lots and lots of innovators that have very good ideas on paper but have no platform or financial support to bring these ideas to life.

$500,000 challenge.

Ecobank have come up to the ecobank fintech challenge which is targeting developers, programmers and technology innovators in the Africa continent whom have developed or are developing a financial technology solution system.

This is to bring an end to the pressing banking issues. There are several key categories that you can place your desired interest, I will still cover this.

Categories:

There are 10 categories that one picks from. You can provide solutions for one or more categories, if you are the guru of gurus you can pick all(which I highly drought). This categories include:

Predictive analysis for big data
Agency banking
Secured client authentication
Apps to work without internet connectivity
KYC technology
Customer analytics
Credit scoring
· Microloan system
· User experience optimizing
· Blockchain technology/solutions within banking

Out the 10 I have I have two favorite that I will keep an eye on to see how it goes. One of them is app that will works offline. This will be a very interesting development as in my previous articles I covered the google offline search and am curious if it will use the same caching technique.

The second one is the blockchain technology likewise I did cover an article on the same and am curious how banks will adopt this technology. My friends at bithub Africa have been spreading the gospel on the same. Think of it if banks start using bitcoins this opens more opportunity for many.

Eligibility/ benefits

Basically All African startups / individual innovators are eligible to apply to the fintech challenge. There is no application fee joining is free.

Funny enough your applications pass though f6s website not the fintech website. The application is open till 11pm GMT, April 14, 2017. For those who love last minute rush you still got time.

You can apply as an individual or as a start-up and you can place as many application as you want but remember to classify them under the given categories, also demos for your products is mandatory. Do not forget this.

Some of the benefits you may enjoy for submitting your entries include: