About the conference
The sixth edition was held in 2025 with the South African Reserve Bank and focused on developing solutions to address trust and integrity in scalable and open finance.
The South African Reserve Bank (SARB), under the G20 Presidency, and the BIS Innovation Hub, joint hosts of the G20 TechSprint 2025 competition, have announced the winners. The TechSprint hackathon seeks out best-in-class technological innovations aimed at common challenges and priorities of the global regulatory and central bank community.
This year's TechSprint, the sixth edition open to developers from around the world, focused on developing solutions to foster trust and integrity in scalable and open finance.
Three winners emerged from a shortlist of fifteen teams, one winner for each of the three problem statements, which focused on:
- establishing trust among financial institutions through innovative, verifiable, and privacy-preserving digital identity technologies.
- improving the ability of small and medium-sized enterprises to finance through secure, consumer-consented data exchange solutions.
- driving wider adoption of fast payment systems globally through technology designed to reduce fraud and cyber risks.
The three winners, chosen by an independent panel of experts and unveiled during a ceremony in South Africa.
Winners
Problem statements
Judges
Team Ownapay SA (Proprietary) Ltd, from South Africa, won the category for problem statement #1, on developing digital identity solutions: establishing trust among financial institutions through innovative, verifiable, and privacy-preserving digital identity technologies.
Team Silence Laboratories Pte Ltd, from Singapore, won the category for problem statement #2, on credit data portability: improving the ability of small and medium-sized enterprises to finance through secure, consumer-consented data exchange solutions that facilitate seamless cross-border sharing of credit information.
Team FNA and Proto, from the United Kingdom, won the category for problem statement #3, on solutions to mitigate fraud and cyber risks: driving wider adoption of fast payment systems globally - and promoting financial inclusion and economic growth - through technology designed to reduce fraud and cyber risks.
- Currency Network Ltd
- Meeco
- Ownapay SA (Proprietary) Ltd
- Settlefirst Assetsworks Private Ltd
- walt.id
- Akiba Digital (Pty) Ltd
- Team led by Amit Bapat: Rakesh Ranjan, Brijesh Baisakhiyar, Vinodh Rajkumar, Hrishikesh Nashikkar, Ashoo Jain, Utkarsh Jaiman, Keerthika Dhadapani
- eSusFarm Africa
- Silence Laboratories Pte Ltd
- Smile Technology Pte Ltd
- Banfico VOP
- ContexQ
- FNA and Proto
- Kasikorn Soft Company Ltd
- Mastercard
- Dr Joseph Atick, Executive Chairman, ID4Africa
- Mr Raymond Chan, Executive Director (Enforcement and AML), Hong Kong Monetary Authority
- Ms Mary Beth Christie, Independent non-Executive Director, Open Banking UK
- Ms Violaine Clerc, Executive Secretary, Financial Action Task Force
- Mr Jeremy Gray, Technical Director, Cenfri
- Ms Gail Hodges, Executive Director, OpenID Foundation
- Mr Guilherme Themes Miguel Jose, Head of Division at the Financial System Regulation Department, Central Bank of Brazil
- Mr Stephen Linnell, Chief Executive Officer, PayInc
- Mr Mark Munne, Head of Technology, Nexus Global Payments
- Mr Kwame Oppong, Former Head FinTech and Innovation, Bank of Ghana
- Mr P Vasudevan, Executive Director, Reserve Bank of India