Singapore FinTech Festival Global FinTech Hackcelerator 2026 – YOA

Deadline: August 14, 2026

Applications are open for the Singapore FinTech Festival Global FinTech Hackcelerator 2026. The Global FinTech Hackcelerator is organised by Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and Global Finance & Technology Network (GFTN). Now in its eleventh version, the programme pairs market-prepared fintech startups with Corporate Champions who set the issue statements and places the perfect options on stage on the Singapore FinTech Festival.

There are three downside statements:

• Credit and fraud danger share frequent alerts, but are assessed in silos — creating blind spots that result in missed dangers and mounting losses. As monetary behaviours shift, static and disconnected fashions fall additional behind. How may we construct an adaptive danger modelling system that unifies credit score and fraud evaluation right into a single, constantly studying framework?
• US$84 trillion in wealth is about to switch to a era that has by no means recognized banking with out a smartphone. Yet personal banking’s consumer expertise stays largely handbook, relationship-dependent, and sluggish to personalise at scale. How may we use AI to ship a seamless, hyper-personalised digital journey — from onboarding to portfolio advisory — that meets subsequent-era wealth purchasers the place they’re?
• Most SMEs don’t know what they don’t know. Gaps in protection in opposition to cyber, provide chain, and asset dangers go unnoticed till a declare is denied or a loss hits — and as companies develop, these gaps quietly compound. How may we use AI to present SMEs a transparent, actual-time image of their danger publicity and protection gaps, and information them to the suitable safety at each stage of their development?

Benefits

The Global FinTech Hackcelerator 2026 supplies an unmatched OPPORTUNITY for early-stage fintech startups to achieve international visibility, market entry, and unlock development, mentorship, funding and partnership alternatives.

Finalists will obtain:

• SGD 20,000 stipend for every finalist workforce.
• Complimentary exhibition kiosk at Singapore FinTech Festival 2026 (SFF 2026).
• Mentorship by senior leaders from monetary establishments and main corporates.
• Dedicated funding community entry
• Masterclasses and workshops to sharpen funding readiness and operational growth methods.
• Pitch your startup on the Demo Day earlier than a global viewers of traders, company executives, and regulators.
• Networking and Deal circulation: Access to Investor Hours and curated closed-door networking periods.

Winners will moreover obtain:

• SGD 80,000 prize cash for every of the highest 3 winners.
• Opportunity for pilot tasks with Corporate Champions submit-programme.

Eligibility

Global Fintech Hackcelerator 2026 is in search of early stage fintech startups that:

• Have a market prepared resolution answering to the issue assertion posted.
• Currently in Bootstrapped, Pre-Seed, Seed, or Series A.
• Based in, working in, or meaning to enter Southeast Asia.
• Open to exterior funding alternatives.

Application

Application to Global FinTech Hackcelerator 2026 is free. Shortlisted finalists will profit from the total programme with out fairness dilution. Investment alternatives are topic to negotiations between finalists and traders.

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to Global FinTech Hackcelerator.