A dozen development teams gathered at the campus last month and used APIs from Birdback, Braintree, Datacash and Twilio to produce a workable payments application.
,The team from Barclays, led again by creative lead Paul Wilshaw – who recently triumphed at Microsoft’s Digital Wallet Foundry hackathon – developed a gamified loyalty solution for merchants, dubbed Credcog and was awarded a 3D Printer at the event. Team-X from Paypal won the award for best hack, using the Braintree API.
,Nicolai Watzenig, CEO of Birdback says that the hackathon concept for the fintech space is a “great opportunity to take players from the ecosystem, gather them under one roof to try and share our experiences from building in the payments industry”.
,Kristoffer Lawson, co-founder of Finish-startup Holvi discusses the role he sees his company having in the financial services space.
,Michael Kent, founder of mobile remittance provider Azimo, talks about hacking into 95% of the world’s banking infrastructure.
