PREDA Plus Foundation launches first Fintech Startup Programme to promote technological innovation in financial services.
Fintech Startup Programme will bring together Fintech developers and designers to develop financial products and discover new technologies.
Sign up for the Fintech Startup Program and participate in the digitalization of financial industry!Call for ideas of startup teams on fin-tech will be open from 17th of October 2022 – 7th of November 2022.
Certified 5-day training on Design Thinking (from 14th to 18th of November 2022 in hotel "Millenium" Bitola)
This interactive training is based on the Design Thinking and it’s applications to businesses and startups. The participants in this training will learn and experience the 5 steps of this methodology: Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype and Test, that will repeat cyclically during the 5-day training.
Through these 5 stages of creating a viable startup, the participants will learn about: customer discovery, customer validation, customer acquisition and pitching, as well as develop their teamwork, communication and other skills.
What will the participants learn:Gain a Design Thinking certificate for Startup Innovation At the end of the 5-day interactive training each participant will be granted a certificate of completion of the “ 5-day Design Thinking Startup Training ”.
Selected attendees of the hackathon will spend 48 hours coding, validating their ideas, networking, mentored by professionals from the industry and then pitching their hacks to a panel of potential investors, executives and entrepreneurs. Prize to the best team will be offered.
Innovation Forum will be a platform for discussion of trends and future perspectives of high officials from regulation bodies, academia and industry on the topic Future of Fintech. At the same time, Innovation forum will celebrate the solutions pitched on first Macedonian Fintech Startup programme.
Best team will be selected from jury and will be awarded EUR 3.000 (voucher).
Presentation of business solution in front of potential investors
Here are our four areas of challenge you can choose from for this Fintech Hackathon
An increasing demand for a digital banking experience from millennials and Gen Zers is transforming how the entire banking industry operates. Retail and mobile banking, online, all digital banking, to neobank startups, technology has its hand in seemingly every aspect of the banking industry; and, the influence of technology will continue to launch banking into a digitized future.
With customers preferring digital-first platforms, financial institutions will in future switch to digital however legacy systems will be a challenge. Upcoming trends: digital lending software; cloud-based microservices; peer-to-peer models; improved credit scoring systems; partnerships and collaboration with data providers, third party processors and technology companies; self-servicing and omnichannels capabilities etc.
The need to manage risk, optimize costs and increase efficiency of investments open space for new technology innovations.
Insurtech refers to the use of technology innovations designed to find cost savings and efficiency from the current insurance industry model. E.g. of insurance areas Insurtech can solve: Claim Management, Underwriting (reviewing an individual's profile, assessing their risk profile, and extending them an insurance package offer that includes their coverage), Contract Execution, Risk Mitigation.
