About the challenge

bunq Hackathon 7.0 is a challenge focused on building practical, high-impact solutions that solve real problems in banking using Multi-Modal AI.

We’re looking for projects that go beyond flashy demos. Solutions should address genuine user needs and demonstrate clear value in a financial context. This means identifying a concrete problem, designing an intelligent system that leverages AI across text, images, audio, or video, and delivering a working prototype that shows how the experience can be improved in a meaningful way.

Whether you streamline complex financial workflows, enhance accessibility, improve customer support, or introduce entirely new ways of interacting with banking services, your project should be grounded in real-world applicability. Strong submissions will combine technical depth with thoughtful product thinking, showing not only what is possible with AI, but why it matters for users.

Requirements

What to Build

Your team must build a working prototype that meets the following requirements:

  • Solves a real problem within a banking or financial services context, with a clear and meaningful user impact.
  • Uses AI as a core component of the system. AI must be essential to how the solution functions, not just an add-on.
  • Incorporates at least one non-text modality, such as image, audio, or video (or a combination of these), as part of the interaction or processing.

What to Submit

  • Name of the project
  • Project description explaining: the problem you are solving, your proposed solution, how AI is used and how non-text modality (image, audio, video, or combinations) is integrated.
  • 2-4 minutes demo video showing a prototype and the main functionalities of the project.
  • GitHub repository link, including a README.md file with setup instructions if applicable.
  • Live demo link (optional)

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Prizes

€8,000 in prizes
First Prize
€5,000 in cash
1 winner

Second Prize
€2,000 in cash
1 winner

Third Prize
€1,000 in cash
1 winner

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Marcel Evers

Marcel Evers
Head of Financial Services Benelux / AWS

Ali el Hassouni

Ali el Hassouni
Founder & CEO / MarvelX AI

Maurice van Sassen

Maurice van Sassen
Head of Product / bunq

Frank Schreuder

Frank Schreuder
Head of Engineering / bunq

Benjamin Kleppe

Benjamin Kleppe
AI Lead / bunq

Judging Criteria

  • Innovation & Creativity (25%)
    Does your project approach a problem in a new or unexpected way? Does it go beyond obvious solutions and show creative use of technology?
  • Impact & Usefulness (30%)
    Does your project solve a real problem and create meaningful value? The most important question: would people actually use this?
  • Technical Execution (20%)
    How well is the project built? Is the use of multi-modal AI (image, audio, video) effective and well-implemented? Is the demo functional?
  • bunq Integration (15%)
    How well does the project integrate with the current bunq app and features?
  • Presentation & Pitch (10%)
    How clearly and convincingly did you present your project? Did you effectively communicate the problem, solution, and its potential?

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