NBK honors ‘Online Hackathon’ winners

NBK honors ‘Online Hackathon’ winners

KUWAIT: National Bank of Kuwait (NBK) strives to provide top-notch digital services to its customers by continuously developing all its digital channels. In this context, the bank honored the winners in the ‘NBK Online Hackathon’, organized in partnership with CODED academy, with the aim of delivering new ideas and innovations to develop in NBK mobile banking.

The prizes were distributed to the winning teams in a ceremony organized by NBK, in the presence of the bank’s jury panel Mohammed Al-Othman, Head of Consumer Banking Group, Nikolaos Sfikas, Head of Group IT, Mehmet Darendeli, Head of Group Strategy, Mohammad Al-Kharafi, Head of Group Operations and Ahmad Marafi, CODED CEO and Co-Founder, and Jason Jiang, General Manager of Huawei.

Mohamed Al-Othman, Head of Consumer Banking Group at National Bank of Kuwait presented the prizes to the winning team named ‘Olympus’ which ranked first and received KD 2,500 prize, whereas ‘Coffee Addicts’ and ‘ta git’ teams came second and third, respectively, and received valuable prizes from Huawei.

In this Hackathon held from 24 to 26 June, 2021 saw the participation of 25 teams of FinTech programmers, of which 15 teams completed their projects successfully with ready-to-present functional prototypes, which were evaluated and three winning teams were