⇒ International Financial Services Centres Authority (IFSCA) launched the FinTech Hackathon “Sprint04: Market-Tech” on 4 December 2021. It is being conducted virtually and be open to eligible FinTechs from across the Globe.
- This hackathon is focused on the Capital Market Segment and is one of its kind being backed by a Regulator.
Host:
Sprint04: Market-Tech is hosted by IFSCA and GIFT city in collaboration with NSE. The Partners to the Hackathon are Zerodha, PWC, ChainFlux, Talent-Sprint, iCreate, IIM-B (NSRCEL), and Invest-India.
The problem statements for this Hackathon are:
(a) Solutions for promoting Retail Capital Market Products at GIFT IFSC
(b) Solutions for encouraging participation of banks, institutional investors, and retail investors in green finance products at GIFT-IFSC
(c) A solution based on Distributed Ledger Technology for tokenization and fractional ownership of physical assets
(d) Innovative Solutions on Web 3.0 focusing on capital markets
(e) An innovative solution in the form of a decentralized exchange/trading platform may be designed for unlisted bonds issued in India or overseas.