What were you doing during the 2020s Great Digital Transformation?
The Fintech Olympiad (FTOL) presents the ideas and application of financial technology in the competition, providing a chance for students to discover their talents and ideas for fintech in any industry, as our society and economy steadily transitions into a digital one. Now is your chance to make history and find your path in career and life. FTOL 2022 is hosted by the City University of Hong Kong (CityU), supported by the HSBC and the HKBCS (Hong Kong Blockchain Society).
Competition Information
Eligibility: college or university students of any disciplines in the Greater Bay Area to join as an individual or as a team (max. 6 students)
Proposal: any Fintech solutions that can solve real-world problems and benefit society (not limited to Hong Kong)
Submission items:
- Team Profile (one CV from each member)
- Poster[board] (landscape, 3:4 ratio)
- Pitch deck in PPTX/PDF
- 10-min pitch video
Submission deadline: 16 April 2022
Final competition & result announcement: 28 May 2022 (via Gather)
Fintech Olympiad 2022 Competition Prize Money
| Award & Prize Money | 2022 Prize Money |
|---|---|
| Gold Medal | HK$15,000 |
| Silver Medal | HK$8,000 |
| Bronze Medal | HK$4,000 |
| Best Protoptype | HK$5,000 |
| Award of Merit | HK$1,000 x 3 teams |
| Best Cross-Border Fintech Solution | HK$5,000 |
Support
- Consultation with expertise from Blockchain (limited quota, first-come-first-served)
- Consultation with expertise from banking industry on 2 March (limited quota, first-come-first-served)
Submit your project
Fintech Olympiad 2022 Event Schedule
| Time | Agenda |
|---|---|
| 8:30-9:00 | (Registration) and Networking |
| 9:00-9:30 | Opening Ceremony |
| 9:30-13:00 | Pitching |
| 13:00-16:00 | Exhibition |
| 16:00:17:00 | Guest sharing and Networking |
| 17:00-18:30 | Closing and Awards Ceremony |
Programme and Competition Overview
Remember to register before enrolment or submission!
Contestants are strongly recommended to attend the training sessions; there is a strong correlation, from previous competitions, between the success of contestants who have joined and those who have not. Remember to register before enrolment or submission!
| Date | Event or Milestone | Venue | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tue 5 Oct 2021 | Information Session #1 | CityU Campus: Lau, 6-213 | |
| Tue 8 Oct 2021 | Information Session #2 | CityU Campus and Zoom | |
| Tue 12 Oct 2021 | Information Session #3 | CityU Campus: Lau, 6-213 | |
| Fri 22 Oct 2021 | FT 100 - Introduction to Finance | CityU Campus: Lau, 6-213 | |
| Tue 26 Oct 2021 | FT 101 - Introduction to Fintech | CityU Campus: Lau, 6-213 | |
| Fri 29 Oct 2021 | FT 102 - ABCD Technologies in Fintech | CityU Campus: Lau, 6-213 | |
| Tue 2 Nov 2021 | FT 103 - Applications of Fintech | CityU Campus: Lau, 6-213 | |
| Fri 5 Nov 2021 | FT 1TU - Basic Training Tutorial (optional) | CityU Campus: Yeung, G5-314 | |
| Tue 9 Nov 2021 | FT 200 - Fintech Careers and Opportunities | CityU Campus: Lau, 6-213 | |
| Fri 12 Nov 2021 | FT 201 - Identity and Privacy in Fintech | CityU Campus: Yeung, G5-314 | |
| Tue 16 Nov 2021 | FT 202 - Financial Ethics and Risks | CityU Campus: Yeung, P4701 | |
| Fri 19 Nov 2021 | FT 203 - Fintech Governance and Regulations | CityU Campus: Yeung, G5-216 | |
| Tue 23 Nov 2021 | FT 204 - Fintech Solution Design | CityU Campus: Yeung, B5-311 | |
| Fri 26 Nov 2021 | FT 205 - Fintech Case Studies | CityU Campus: Yeung, G5-216 | |
| Tue 30 Nov 2021 | FT 2TU - Advanced Training Tutorial (optional) | CityU Campus: Yeung, G5-214 |
Contestants may participate in events that help them form teams, refine ideas, and network with professionals and fellow elite students — remember to register before enrolment or submission!
| Date | Event or Milestone | Venue |
|---|---|---|
| Fri 3 Dec 2021 | NFT Workshop 1 | Innocentre |
| Fri 10 Dec 2021 | NFT Workshop 2 | CityU Campus: Yeung, B5-310 |
| Mon 13 Dec 2021 | NFT Workshop 3 | CityU Campus: Yeung, Li, 3610 |
| Fri 17 Dec 2021 | NFT Workshop 4 | CityU Campus: Yeung, B5-310 |
| Sat-Sun 8-9 Jan 2022 | Fintech Panels | CityU Campus: Li, 2510 |
| Fri 14 Jan 2022 | HSBC Networking Day | Zoom |
| Sat 15 Jan 2022 | Enrolment Deadline for Fintech Hackathon | - |
| Sat-Sun 22-23 Jan 2022 | Fintech Hackathon (Ideathon) | Zoom |
| Thurs 10 Feb 2022 | Enrolment Deadline for SSI/Julia Workshops | - |
| Sun 30 Jan 2022 | Submission Deadline (Lightning Round)(optional) | |
| Fri 11 Feb 2022 | SSI Workshop | Zoom |
| Wed 16 Feb 2022 | Whitepaper Workshop | Zoom |
| Mon-Fri 7 Feb-20 May 2022 | Office Hours for Registered Team | - |
| Fri 18 Feb 2022 | Julia Workshop | Zoom |
| Fri 25 Feb 2022 | Making Winning Presentation Workshop | Zoom |
| Wed 2 Mar 2022 | Micro-Consulting Day | Zoom |
| Mon-Wed 14 Mar-13 Apr 2022 | Tutorial for project | Discord |
| Sat 16 Apr 2022 | Final Submission Deadline | - |
| Sat 28 May 2022 | FTOL 2022 Finals | Gather |
Some of these activities are for all participants, and some are exclusively for Finalists or Finalists who have Awards of Merit. Regardless — remember to register before enrolment or submission!
| Date | Event or Milestone |
|---|---|
| Sat 11 Jun - Mon 29 Aug 2022 | Office Hours for Incubatees |
| TBC | Field Trip: Blockchain Hackathon |
| TBC | Field Trip: Blockchain Mock Trial Day |
| TBC | Field Trip: GBA Blockchain Olympiad |
| TBC | Field Trip: International Blockchain Olympiad |
| TBC | Blockchain Certification Exams (in-person and online) |
| TBC | Blockchain Certification Exams (online only) |
| Jul-Aug 2022 | Blockchain for Fintech Certification Exams (in person and online) |
| Awards | Project Name | Team | Members | Project Abstract |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gold Medal | BitExpress | BitExpress - The University of Hong Kong | Members: Raghav Agarwal, Shukla Yashwita, Tanay Agarwal | We aim to streamline and accelerate the supply chain and secure it using a combination of blockchain and IoT devices. We envision a perfect supply chain as one which is reliable, traceable, and intelligent. Our product will learn from data and optimize itself to predict demands for manufacturers. |
| Silver Medal | Paratag | Green Chain - Hong Kong Baptist University | Yuk Ching Lee | Paratag is a blockchain-based supply chain finance system which aims to integrate ESG scores into the credit risk assessment process of SMEs to develop a sustainable supply chain finance system. |
| Bronze Medal | LemonT | Lemon Team - City University of Hong Kong | Aaron Doering, Daniel Eckhoff, Jayson Haebich | LemonT is a blockchain- based solution for transparently storing, and retrieving informa- tion of a car’s service and odometer history in a tamper-free ledger which allows car owners to prove the genuineness of their car’s past repairs, parts and mileage to potential second hand buyers or to other third parties (e.g, insurer, bank). |
| Award of Merit | B-Safe | Blockarian - The Hong Kong Polytechnic University | Yan Suet Lo,Tzu Yin Yu | B-Safe aims to build an AI System to generate ratio on safety level and environmental friendliness of the buildings, rule out possible safety concerns and effects to the environment through machine learning. |
| Award of Merit | Ubitrust | Ubitrust - Hong Kong Baptist University | Mathias AwuniI, Yan Cheng, Ting Fok Kwan, Man Ki Ho | Ubitrust, a mobile application that calculates credit scores and produces credit reports to allow lenders to gain deep insights into potential borrowers for the optimum credit risk management. Ubitrust aims to transcend geographic or demographic barriers to assess creditworthiness worldwide. |
| Award of Merit | Cherrity | Cherrity - Lingnan University | Yeung Fan Siu, Man Cheng Yuen, Man Ho Sheung | We aim to provide a trustable platform for donation. By putting transactions on chain and share it with related donors, we could increase transparency and single level of assurance which is often lacking in the current non-profit industry. |
| Best Cross-Border Fintech Solution | Cverify | Cverify - The Chinese University of Hong Kong | Yirui Huang, Jialu Li, Chong Ki Wong | Cverify provides a blockchain-based credit information system used in the education and employment industry to solve the problems of high cost and low efficiency when verifying the information of employees, which in turn promotes the flow of employees in Greater Bay Area. |
| Best Prototype Award | Streampay | Stream Payment - Lingnan University | Toktar Akhmetov | Stream Payments is a payment system where beneficiaries can input deposit amount and spending rate will be calculated according to start date and end date. Stream Payments aims to solve the Complex logics for continuous service payments. |