Center-Invest Bank was an official partner and the participant of FINOPOLIS.365 youth program. Two teams, mentored by the bank’s experts, came 1st and 3rd in the final hackathon held at the forum.

FINOPOLIS is the leading venue for discussions and innovations in financial technologies. Traditionally, the Forum includes a youth program and a hackathon to attract young professionals to the financial technology industry and hone their professional skills.

In 2023, the hackathon was held in several stages, starting with acceptance of applications and holding of online hackathon, then came offline competitions in the regional case-study championships that took place in Samara and Innopolis, the satellite city of Kazan, as well as presentation of the operating service prototype at the finals in Moscow within the framework of the FINOPOLIS Forum. 481 teams from 143 cities of Russia took part in the contest. The projects were assessed by Chairperson of the Central Bank Elvira Nabiullina, First Deputy Chairperson of the Central Bank Olga Skorobogatova, Chairman of the Board of NSPC Vladimir Komlev, and by representatives of financial institutes.

Center-Invest Bank provided case studies for the hackathon, held workshops and participated in mentoring the project implementation based on the curriculum of the Bank’s own Accelerator. As a result, the MISIS GIS team with the case study and mentors from Center-Invest Bank won the hackathon with the DFA Marketplace service prototype. The team called Inflation with the Monetarium service prototype came 3rd.

«Yet another victory in the youth contest of the country’s main fintech event confirms the leading position of Center-Invest Bank in the ability to generate up-to-date innovative solutions and highlights its leading role in training of highly demanded young IT specialists in the region,» said Yury Bogdanov, Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors, Innovations Director of Center-invest Bank. The FINOPOLIS forum is held by the Bank of Russia in partnership with banks and IT leaders to discuss and implement modern digital technologies in the financial sector.