Previous Alliance Hackathons
The Alliance Hack was born out of our growing understanding of the fintech industry’s blind spot when it comes to women-focused strategies. As found in our own research into fintechs and the female economy, fintechs are well-positioned to tap into the vast, underserved women’s market, and to help fintechs do so, the Alliance launched an annual Hackathon.
The Alliance Hack leverages our deep expertise in serving the women’s market to support fintechs develop solutions for women to access finance and non-financial services to accelerate their income growth. The Hack puts the spotlight on fintechs so that incumbent banks, many of whom are existing members of the Alliance, can see what they are offering; the Hack also gives fintechs an opportunity to pitch their solution in front of a high impact judging panel of global leaders in the financial services industry.

Alliance Hack 2023
The fourth Alliance Hack focused on giving women entrepreneurs access to financial and non-financial services; helping women retail customers become active investors and greening the CVP for women.
Ten teams participated and first prize went to SALT, an AI-powered fintech platform that provides users with curated financial products based on their psychology, life context and unique financial needs. Second prize went to Boost Capital, a SAAS platform that allows banks to onboard customers via chat through smartphones in 5-10 min without an app download. Third prize went to Nume a platform for women’s personal well-being and professional development.

Alliance Hack 2022
Fifteen fintechs participated from eleven countries: Bolivia, Canada, Cambodia, India, Mexico, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore, United States and Zambia. Each proposed an innovative business solution with the potential to break down one of five key barriers to women’s economic empowerment: Financing Women-Owned/Led Informal VSEs; Financing Women-Owned/Led SMEs; Building the Business Capabilities of Female Entrepreneurs; Transforming Mass-Market Women’s Investment Capabilities and Building Women Entrepreneurs’ Access to Trade and Supply Chain.
Winners were: Tribe Fintech, Singapore, Shecluded, Nigeria, and Lidh, Mexico.
The 2022 Alliance Hack took place in partnership with HSBC, Citi Bank, Equinix and International Finance corporation (IFC), with support from the Singapore Fintech Festival, APIX, as well as supporters and contributors from across our network.

Alliance Hack 2021
Thirteen fintechs from twelve countries—Australia, Argentina, Colombia, Great Britain, Hong Kong, India, Nigeria, Singapore, Spain, Taiwan, Uganda, and the United States — participated.
LXME, from India, won the Female Economy Fintech of the Year Award as the top-scoring participant. Mahila Money, from India as well, earned the Female Economy Silver Fintech Award, and Mosabi, from Sierra Leone, earned the Female Economy Bronze Fintech Award.

Alliance Hack 2020
The Alliance Hack 2020: Driving the Female Economy called for innovative tech-base solutions in four challenge tracks—banking, wealth, insurance, and payments.
Tackling these challenges were thirteen teams; six working on banking, four on wealth, two on payments, and one on insurance. The teams were from ten different countries—including Canada, Germany, Ireland, Kenya, Malaysia, Nigeria, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, and the United States—reflecting the global nature of both the Alliance network and the issues at hand.
TymeGlobal, from South Africa, won The Female Economy Fintech of the Year Award as the top-scoring participant. Ndovu, from Kenya, earned the Female Economy Silver Fintech Award, and GFI Fintech, from Malaysia, earned the Female Economy Bronze Fintech Award.