Zenith Bank Hackathon 2025 (₦70,000,000 pool prize) – YOA

Deadline: October 31, 2025

Applications are open for the Zenith Bank Hackathon 2025. Zenith Bank Hackathon gives a platform for innovation, empowering artistic minds to develop groundbreaking banking and fintech options. Through this initiative, Zenith Bank reinforces its dedication to digital transformation, monetary inclusion, and expertise-pushed development throughout Africa.

Choose a problem observe and develop impactful options to drive innovation within the Nigerian and African monetary ecosystem.

• Optimising Operational Efficiency of ATMs
• Alternative Credit Scoring Using Non-Traditional Data
• SME Marketplace and Smart Lending Platform
• Strengthening Customer Trust
• Combating Digital Fraud and Financial Crime
• Hyper-Personalised Banking with AI
• Seamless Digital Onboarding & Service Experience
• Seamless Digital KYC and Liveness Verification
• Real-Time Agent Liquidity Optimisation
• Managing Misinformation and Reputational Risk

Benefits

• A complete prize pool of ₦70,000,000:
  • Winner: ₦30M,
  • 4 Finalists: ₦10M every.
• Strategic collaboration alternatives with Zenith Bank
• Investor publicity and partnership alternatives
• 6-week Startup Incubation Program with skilled mentorship

Eligibility

• Open to all Individuals inside 20 – 35 years of age;
• Developers, designers, and innovators;
• Students, professionals, &  startups;
• Teams of two  – 4 folks;
• Citizens of African nations.

Assessment Criteria

Submissions will probably be judged primarily based on:

• Innovation & Creativity: Originality and sensible use of rising applied sciences.
• Feasibility: Realistic and technically achievable idea.
• Impact: Relevance to monetary inclusion and consumer wants.
• Scalability: Potential to broaden and serve bigger markets.
• Presentation: Clear, compelling, and nicely-structured pitch.

Solution Submission Requirements

Your submission ought to embody:

• Problem & OPPORTUNITY: Clearly outline the problem and why it issues.
• Innovative Solution: Describe your thought, the way it works, and the way it makes use of AI, GenAI, or rising tech to resolve the issue.
• Impact & Value: Explain what makes it distinctive and the measurable advantages for customers or the monetary ecosystem.
• Target Users & Implementation: Identify who advantages and description a possible method for constructing or deploying the answer.
• Team & Expertise: Introduce your staff members, their roles, and the way their abilities contribute to the undertaking’s success.

Application

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to Zenith Bank Hackathon.