The stage is set once again for Pakistan’s brightest minds to showcase their fintech brilliance. Together with LUMS, we’re sparking the next wave of disruptors, turning bold ideas into meaningful fintech impact.
Submit Your ApplicationCalling all innovators, students, fintech enthusiasts, entrepreneurs, and aspiring startup founders: submit your ideas, prototypes, or ready-to-use solutions.
This hackathon gives you a platform to showcase cutting-edge solutions tailored to modern customer needs in the digital age.
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Our Thematic Areas have been gathered directly from those who operate in the Fintech space and, as a result, face these challenges regularly.
Develop intelligent AI agents that can independently understand customer or business needs, perform defined banking tasks, support employees, automate workflows and assist in faster decision-making. Solutions should demonstrate practical value while ensuring human oversight, explainability, data privacy, security and responsible integration with banking systems.
Explore how eligible bank assets and financial instruments can be represented digitally through secure tokenization to improve ownership records, transparency, accessibility, transferability and settlement efficiency. Solutions should focus on realistic banking use cases and include appropriate governance, regulatory compliance, customer protection and risk controls.
Design solutions that make international payments and remittances faster, more affordable, transparent and convenient for customers and businesses. Proposed ideas should address existing challenges such as high transaction costs, delayed settlement, complex compliance requirements, foreign exchange transparency and interoperability between financial networks.
Create lightweight and embedded applications that allow customers to access selected banking, payment and lifestyle services through a simple and seamless digital experience. Solutions should reduce customer effort, improve service discovery and enable faster completion of everyday journeys without requiring customers to download or navigate multiple standalone applications.
Develop practical robotics-based solutions that can enhance customer service, branch engagement and operational support. Proposed use cases may include customer reception, guidance, queue assistance, product information, interactive support, document movement and routine operational tasks, with emphasis on safety, accessibility, scalability and integration with the Bank’s digital ecosystem.
Grab your opportunity to compete in the 5th Allied Bank Fintech Hackathon 2026 with two exciting categories:
Startups at the ideation or initial development stage, with a POC required; young graduates or startups with less than one year of operation focused on research, innovation and concept development.
Startups with mature product/service, minimum one year and up to two years of operations and revenue-earning stage, with focus on scaling, market expansion and partnership opportunities.
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Early-Stage Startups:
| Category | Prize (PKR) |
| 1st | 1,000,000 |
| 2nd | 500,000 |
| 3rd | 300,000 |
Growth-Stage Fintechs:
| Category | Prize (PKR) |
| 1st | 2,000,000 |
| 2nd | 1,000,000 |
| 3rd | 500,000 |
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What are you waiting for?
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Building on four successful Hackathons, Allied Bank is proud to launch its 5th Fintech Hackathon; bringing together entrepreneurs, students, and innovators to build bold solutions for the future of finance.
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