Fintech Galaxy and Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH have launched the virtual hackathon for financial inclusion and regulatory collaboration in the Arab region, the Yalla Fintech 2020 Hackathon.Yalla Fintech encourages and enables innovators, regulators, and other ecosystem partners from the Arab region to remotely collaborate and crowdsource solutions for key issues in financial inclusion that have become priority issues during the Pandemic:

1. Digital Lending

2. Digital Financial Awareness

3. Know-Your-Customer for Simplified Customer On-boarding

Winning proposals in each theme will be awarded prize money of EUR 5,000.00 to kick start the scaling of the solution.

Deadline for applications is November 19th, 2020

Applications will be shortlist by Novemner 26th, 2020

Hackathon will begin on December 7th until December 15th, 2020

If you would like to apply for the Hackathon, click here to register.