Mumbai, India, February 16, 2016: ICICI Financial institution at the moment introduced the launch of a digital cellular app growth problem, India’s largest cellular app growth initiative by a financial institution. Christened ‘ICICI Appathon’, the programme goals to draw builders, know-how firms, startups, technopreneurs and college students to create the following era of banking functions on cellular.
Hosted on the IBM Bluemix cloud primarily based platform, ‘ICICI Appathon’ will provide a various set of over 50 APIs (Utility Programme Interface) from ICICI Financial institution and its group firms particularly ICICI Prudential Life Insurance coverage, ICICI Lombard Common Insurance coverage and ICICI Securities. As a primary, cost APIs from ‘Visa’ and the ‘Unified Cost Interface’ API from NPCI can even be out there for the app growth problem. Visa and NPCI are the companions of ‘ICICI Appathon.’
Utilizing these APIs, individuals should create modern working prototypes of cellular functions that gives a superior buyer expertise.
Talking in regards to the initiative, Ms. Chanda Kochhar, MD & CEO, ICICI Financial institution stated, “At ICICI Financial institution, know-how has been on the core of our technique. According to this imaginative and prescient, now we have launched the ‘ICICI Appathon’ that can permit us to foster innovation and faucet into the minds of essentially the most modern builders. With India being among the many prime three web customers on the earth, cellular banking is witnessing an exponential development. It’s also bringing a few shift in client choice whereby they need modern options on the go. By means of the ‘ICICI Appathon’, we need to broad base and leverage on the modern concepts and the distinctive expertise in our builders, technopreneurs and know-how startups. We consider that programmes like these will encourage younger builders to create world class banking functions on cellular and can strengthen the Authorities’s ‘Digital India’ mission. We hope to get concepts for some distinctive apps on the finish of this growth problem.”
Freelance builders, know-how fans working in firms, startups and college students from the know-how house can take part within the ‘ICICI Appathon’ within the following manner:
- Registration: Contributors can register on iciciappathon.com from February 16 to March 01, 2016. The names of the shortlisted candidates can be introduced on March 4, 2016. They are going to be given entry to the APIs hosted on the IBM Bluemix platform on March 5, 2016
- Growth: Contributors should create minimal one modern working prototype utilizing the digital banking and monetary companies APIs. These should be submitted by March 27, 2016
- Analysis: Finalists can be introduced on April 7, 2016. They are going to be invited to the ICICI Financial institution headquarters in Mumbai to compete within the Grand Finale in mid of April 2016
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Three ‘ICICI Appathon’ champions can be chosen by a jury of eminent leaders from the BFSI phase and startups. All individuals can be judged on 5 standards that embrace uniqueness, performance, enterprise potential, consumer expertise and scalability.
Three ‘ICICI Appathon’ champions can be chosen by a jury of eminent leaders from the BFSI phase and startups. All individuals can be judged on 5 standards that embrace uniqueness, performance, enterprise potential, consumer expertise and scalability.
The highest three winners will win prizes from a pool of over Rs 20 lakh together with a possible engagement alternative with ICICI Financial institution. They can even be given an opportunity to be mentored by the occasion companions. Moreover, winners of the ‘ICICI Appathon’, who apply to the ‘10,000 Startups’ of NASSCOM will get a quick tracked entry into it. Furthermore, two members of the successful crew shall even have entry to the community and coworking neighborhood of 91springboard (a co-working neighborhood of freelancers, startups and established small to giant companies) throughout India.
