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Startup Challenge

Fostering the world’s most promising and disruptive innovations in Financial Services

Launched by SWIFT, the Innotribe Startup Challenge introduces financial industry decision makers and early-stage investors to the emerging innovations poised to transform the financial services industry. The Challenge is a year-round program that features three regional showcases in the US, Asia, and Europe where participants gather for fast-paced company pitches, insightful discussion of emerging innovations, and social networking events.

Applications are now closed. Visit us again soon to find out who is going to the Semi-finals showcases!

Lee Min Xuan, Co-Founder of 2012’s top startup winner, PlayMoolah, said: “The Innotribe Startup Challenge has definitely been a catalyst in helping PlayMoolah gain international exposure within the banking circle. We received a lot of interest at Sibos which gave us the opportunity to participate in the critical dialogue on the future of banking, helping to shape the reinvention of banking to one that puts focus back on the customer.”

David S. Rose, Founder and CEO of Gust, 2012’s top innovator, said: “The Innotribe Startup Challenge was a great experience for Gust, and I would recommend it to any start-up looking to introduce their product to the financial services industry.“

There’s no charge to apply or participate, so whether you’re an early stage start-up or a more mature company delivering innovation to the financial industry, the Innotribe Startup Challenge is the best way to connect directly with the industry’s most important investors, customers, partners and influencers:

  • Apply online to get feedback from our expert judges.
  • Semi-finalists present to invitation-only audiences at one of three regional challenge showcases.
  • Finalists present to the world’s leading financial institutions at Sibos, SWIFT’s annual industry conference that draws more than 8,000 participants from across the financial services industry.
  • Winners at Innotribe@Sibos will share in a $50,000 cash prize!

This year’s regional showcases will be held in:

 

The Social Finance Innovation platform – Thursday, 1 November from 9.30 – 11.30

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For the first time at Sibos, Innotribe will give the stage (not that we really have a stage, this is just an expression!) to five social entrepreneurs.  This social finance innovat[...]
16 Oct 2012
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Innotribe Startup Challenge Toronto 2011 finalists

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What happened next? The Innotribe Startup Challenge began in 2011 at Sibos in Toronto, after recognising an increasing need to connect the start-up community with the banking indus[...]
08 Oct 2012
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Innotribe start-up challenge, Osaka calling!

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It has been a while since my last blog, and very soon you will get the reason for all that busy-ness (the beauty of blogging is that I can invent words). As a short preview, I’m su[...]
03 Oct 2012
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Is there a Future for Doing Good?

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We, Innotribe, believe there is.  That’s why we decided to devote a whole Sibos session to this topic.  As per my vlog, I would like to invite you to attend this session on T[...]
01 Oct 2012
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What’s The Next Big Thing In Banking? Ask Innotribe!

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I’m just back from the Innotribe@Belfast event, held on 13-14 June. It was excellent, with two parts – a conference and the EMEA instance of the Innotribe startup challenge. About [...]
18 Jun 2012
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Taking No Risk Is The Greatest Risk Of All

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Forbes is running a “startup month” and this week is about turning an idea into a real business. Immediately I thought about the PlayMoolah startup and its co-founders Min Xuan Lee[...]
12 Jun 2012
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Belfast: an unprecedented networking experience. Let me tell you why and how!

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@innotribe Belfast, we used the expression “an unprecedented networking experience” and I d like to explain you why. When you interview people attending conferences and ask WHY the[...]
25 May 2012
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MyStandards sailed away from the NYC harbor. Godspeed.

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We had a great launch event of MyStandards yesterday in SWIFT’s NYC office. Lots of people turned up (I think about 80) from pilots, press, user group, banks and some brokers. The [...]
15 May 2012
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Startup building for dummies, part TWO: swiftcommunity.net

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This is the second chapter of my startup journey. Totally different animal, context, scope, but still an idea that had lags,this time developed in a corporate context: www.swiftcom[...]
24 Apr 2012
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Startup building for dummies, based on a true story – part ONE: italiansonline.net

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It took a bit more than 42 years…after being the initiator, the catalyst, or simply a co-founder of 5 startups, in different domains and in different contexts… 42 years to start un[...]
21 Apr 2012
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About Innotribe

Launched in 2009, Innotribe is SWIFT’s initiative to enable collaborative innovation in financial services. Innotribe brings together strategists, business and technology leaders, trend-setters and trend-watchers, and thinkers interested in taking action and shaping the future.

Innotribe fosters creative thinking in financial services, through debating the options (at Innotribe events) and supporting the creation of innovative new solutions (through the Incubator, Startup Challenge and Proof of Concepts (POCs).

About SWIFT

SWIFT is a member-owned cooperative that provides the communications platform, products and services to connect more than 10,000 banking organisations, securities institutions and corporate customers in 212 countries and territories. SWIFT enables its users to exchange automated, standardised financial information securely and reliably, thereby lowering costs, reducing operational risk and eliminating operational inefficiencies. SWIFT also brings the financial community together to work collaboratively to shape market practice, define standards and debate issues of mutual interest.