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Interested in Finance? Interested in Tech? Keen to meet your future co-founders and disrupt the finance industry? Come along to our FinTech-themed weekend hackathon. You’ll be fed, watered, (hugged, if absolutely necessary), and sheltered from the elements, while you pitch your ideas, attract skilled team-mates, design your solution, build a working prototype and present to a select panel of judges.

Our event aims to have the right mix of developers, designers, data lovers and daring-doers (hustlers fueled with wild passion and sheer determination). This hackathon will suit those who enjoy designing or building software products, making sense of and manipulating data, and using business savvy.

It will be intense (there might be tears) but it will be fun. There will be friends to be made and prizes to be won. And who knows, perhaps there will be the birth of the next billion-dollar (sorry, pound) startup to come out of Scotland.

What sort of ideas should be pitched / fit within the FinTech theme?

Product ideas could cover the following areas plus much more:

Financial inclusion: products for with the unbanked
Online rewards: make these relevant and simplify signups
Financial education/literacy: tool to enhance knowledge and skills
Personal finance: tools to make financial mgnt easier
Hyperlocal transactions: helping small businesses and retailers improve digital payments
Cyber-security
Blockchain
Alternative lending
Plus lots more
The finance industry may have been resistant to the rapid, technology-driven changes that have turned other industries upside-down and inside out, but it can’t afford to be that anymore. Every area of financial services is being disrupted by new players in the digital space and this could change the way that we, as customers, live our lives and do business.

What changes would you like to see in the finance industry? Can you think of processes that could be made more efficient, secure, transparent and inexpensive?

These links offer information about how tech is changing financial services and may help you come up with ideas that you’d like to work on or pitch at our hackathon event.

Disrupting traditional finance: mathewsvincent.wordpress.com
What do the 17 hottest financial tech companies in Britain do? uk.businessinsider.com
More examples of companies that are helping to reshape the finance industry: www.fintechinnovators.com
“‘the biggest areas of FinTech investment for top VCs since 2007 are the following: payments, personal finance management, lending, and bitcoin.” uk.businessinsider.com
Slides from a recent financial technology conference in Scotland: www.slideshare.net
What do the 25 top financial tech companies in the world do? raconteur.net
Disrupting finance industry using blockchain tech: www.economistinsights.com
Why you should care about blockchain: recode.net
Why should you as a designer/developer/marketer participate?

To make the world a more efficient, easy and exciting place to navigate. FinTech could change the way we live our lives and do business. Other reasons to participate are:

To use the skills that you don’t get to show off at your current day job
To meet your future co-founders for the billion pound startup you may wind up creating
To meet potential hirers
To meet more of your peers, make like-minded friends and professional acquaintances
To gain startup experience
To add a new project to your portfolio
To win a cool prize and recognition for your effort
To surprise yourself at how much you can achieve in 48hours!
More details: infinitekind.com

(Ticket prices will cover catering and/or prizes). To enquire about DISCOUNTS on ticket prices email bela@infinitekind.com