Win, explore, and expandAs a Fintech innovator, leverage the annual Fintech Challenge to launch your product across Ecobank’s pan-African markets and help make Africa better
Register for final of Fintech Challenge 2024!
The registration of the final of Fintech Challenge 2024 has started. You can apply now.
Empowering African Fintechs to boost Africa's financial growth
The Ecobank Fintech Challenge is open to all startups with innovative solutions addressing the needs of the African population and its diaspora. It has been created with two objectives in mind:
Identify and support Fintechs that are ready to scale with resources, funding, partnerships, etc. in Ecobank’s 35 African markets.Leverage these pan-African Fintech success stories and the solutions they offer to improve Africa’s financial integration and economic development.
The Challenge in numbers
5,500+participants from 64 countries in the 6 years of the Challenge
60Fintech start-ups enrolled in the Ecobank Fintech Fellowship
10Mcustomers across 19 countries served by Fintech Fellows
15partnerships that are live or under integration
$120Mraised by Fellows till date
Here’s what you gain
The Challenge is the ideal launchpad for African Fintech innovators and startups to scale up to the next grand level with full support from Ecobank. It brings together a diverse pool of Africa-focused innovations to solve Africa’s financial inclusion pain points.
Multinational product rolloutCommercial partnership and integration opportunities to access and launch products across Ecobank’s 35 African markets
Service provider partnershipsBusiness acceleration and capacity building support along with the opportunity to be a country-level partner in Ecobank’s ecosystem
Access to our pan-African banking SandboxSupport of a dedicated team to carry out Ecobank's API tests and enable better integration of Fintech products in the pan-African market
Well-established partner networkEasy access and relationship building with global and African fintech accelerators, potential investors and mentors through the Ecobank Fintech Fellowship
Competition cash prizes$50,000 no-strings attached cash prize support to the winning company along with more cash prizes to the top three winners
Integration with our existing digital offeringsLaunchpad to leverage our existing products such as Omni, Electronic Financial Supply Chain (eFSC), Xpress, Mobile App, MasterPass™ QR, mVISA™ & mCash, etc.
The Fintech Fellowship opens up a whole new world of benefits, partnerships and support for every finalist of the Challenge.
It's an amazing thing to be the winner of the Ecobank Fintech Challenge. USD 50,000 means expansion for Koree. It means new markets. It means new hires. It means runway... The prize that Ecobank is giving us, will enable us to actually put things into place and realise big things.Magalie Gauze-SangaFounder of Koree, 2023 Winner