Swift Hackathon 2025

Calling all developers, innovators, and fintech pioneers: Can your team bridge the gap between digital money and today’s global payment systems?
This year, we're challenging teams to leverage the benefits of digital currencies to improve the payments experience.
As digital currencies gain momentum—CBDCs, stablecoins, and beyond—it’s more urgent than ever before to demonstrate their benefits whilst ensuring interoperability, compliance, and efficient cross-currency flows.
Join the Swift Hackathon 2025 to tackle this challenge and help shape the future of finance.
Why join?
- Present your solution on the Innotribe Stage at Sibos 2025 in Frankfurt
- Gain visibility with global financial leaders
- Collaborate with Swift experts
- Build skills, networks, and real impact
- Compete with top tech talent worldwide
The challenges
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Business challenge: Unlocking speed, cost and transparency with digital payments
How can we improve speed, cost and transparency of multi-network, cross-currency payments using digital money, without compromising on regulatory standards?
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Technical challenge: Overcoming the digital payments divide with ISO 20022
Leverage ISO 20022 to design solutions that supercharge complex transactions that involve digital and fiat currencies flowing across DLT and traditional networks.
The Hackathon Briefing Pack
Key dates
- Registration opens: 19 May
- Closes: 20 June
- Hackathon: 11–25 July
- Finalists announced: Late June
- Hackathon Sibos session: 2 October

How it works
- Max 10 participants per team (from one company)
- One solution per challenge per team
- Submit a short proposal with your problem statement, solution overview, and why your team should be selected
- Top 5 teams per challenge advance to build a working prototype