Press Release
The number of registrations exceeded all expectations since more than 200 people and more than 25 teams participated. In the end, 18 teams presented their applications on Sunday afternoon.
BoC Fintech Hackathon 5.0 is the fifth marathon for the development of innovative applications in the field of financial transactions (#fintech) that has been organized in Cyprus, by Bank of Cyprus. During the three-day marathon, the teams developed innovative applications related to the thematic areas of the Hackathon and great ideas and solutions came up.
BoC Fintech Hackathon 5.0 started on Friday, October 18th, with the Kick Off Meeting, where the process and all the available resources & tools were explained to the participants. The teams worked on the implementation of their ideas, using new IT technologies, Jinius APIs BoC APIs and BoC SDK, on a process that was carried out throughout the three-day period.
The process was supported by 25 mentors.
The Winners
1st place and 5.000 euros goes to Moctezuma: Real Time Utilized Real Estate Tokenization and buy - sell process system
2nd place and 3.000 euros goes to 2 Teams. Electra and Vasilkoff!
Bank of Cyprus decided to award each team with 3.000 euros
Electra: The app combines real-time energy monitoring, making data available for the customers via comprehensive dashboards and BoC payment API integration, automating energy payments.
Vasilkoff: AI-Powered Instant Loan Approval in 1 Minute chat or voice, with customizable white-labeling for banks and retailers to enhance their brand and customer experience.
3rd place and 2.000 euros goes to Pockit: An intelligent AI assistant designed to help you manage your savings effortlessly.
Best Use of Jinius APIs Award and 2.000 euros goes to Memoirme: A SaaS that helps families and individuals celebrate life of their loved ones through digital memoirs.
Our Partners Awards:
Cyta Business
Cyta Business powered the BOC hackathon with cutting-edge 50G-PON Hyperfast Broadband Internet infrastructure, delivering speeds up to 30Gbps.
University of Nicosia
The Scholarship was given to the first Team Moctezuma.
Cyens
Two dedicated seats at the CYENS TechHub, a cutting-edge co-working space tailored for startups, located in the vibrant center of Nicosia, were given to team Electra.
C4E
The Award of Center 4 Entrepreneurship was given to Electra.
Microsoft
All teams were awarded Azure Credits.
Kyndryl
5 hours mentorship on Security goes to Memoirme and Pick The Bank
Pick The Bank: A functionality enabling BoC to embed financial products offered by other financial institutions into BoC online banking.
BoC Fintech Hackathon 5.0 was a great fintech experience that we are looking forward to having again. See you next year!
A special thanks to our partners
BoC Fintech Hackathon 5.0 was implemented with organizational and technical support of Crowdpolicy and consulting support of Greek Fintech Cluster.
Referral Links:
- Site: www.bochackathon.com
- Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/bochackathon/
