{"id":34873,"date":"2019-09-26T13:40:15","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T12:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=34873"},"modified":"2019-09-26T13:40:15","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T12:40:15","slug":"nse-announces-call-for-entries-for-its-inaugural-hackathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/nse-announces-call-for-entries-for-its-inaugural-hackathon\/","title":{"rendered":"NSE Announces Call For Entries For Its Inaugural Hackathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"yiv4775215131MsoNormal\">The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) has announced the commencement of the inaugural edition of X-Kathon, its hackathon and idea innovation contest designed to improve the Nigerian capital market.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv4775215131MsoNormal\">This edition themed, \u201cMillennial Participation in The Capital Market\u201d, is aimed at enhancing retail investors\u2019 participation in the capital market.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv4775215131MsoNormal\">X-kathon is open to talented individuals, teams and ventures in the tech ecosystem, who have the \u201cmagic wand\u201d to explode the growth potentials of the Nigerian capital market. Interested participants should submit creative ideas, software\/tech solutions and hacks\u00a0 to address \u201clow participation of millennials \u00a0in the capital market\u201d \u00a0on or before October 8, 2019, via\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nse.com.ng\/x-kathon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.nse.com.ng\/x-kathon<\/a>.<\/p><div data-ad-id=\"32665\" style=\"text-align:center; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;float:none;\" class=\"afw afw_ad_image afw_ad afwadid-32665  \">\r\n                                                            <div style=\"font-size:10px;text-align:center;color:#cccccc;\">Advertisement<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.accessbankplc.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"auto\" max-width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Banner-1.jpg\"><\/a>\r\n                                                                        \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p class=\"yiv4775215131MsoNormal\">To ensure the best candidates emerge at the grand finale on October 24, 2019, entries for the X-kathon will undergo rigorous review and the top 10 entries will be invited to a boot camp. The overall winner of the maiden edition of the X-kathon will win the sum of Five Million Naira while the first and second runner ups will win Three Million Naira and Two Million Naira respectively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv4775215131MsoNormal\">Speaking on the initiative, Mr. John Nsikak, Head Enterprise Innovation Hub at The Nigerian Stock Exchange said, \u201cTechnology remains an essential enabler for growth in the Nigerian capital market. While the banking sector has witnessed an increased level of innovation and disruption, leading to the creation of more value for customers, the capital market is yet to experience the same wave of change.\u00a0 At the NSE, we intend to change this narrative by leveraging X-Kathon as one of the platforms to crowdsource ideas and solutions that will catalyze innovation and startups\u2019 participation in our market. With X-kathon, NSE is inspiring stakeholders in the Fintech industry to solve \u201cparticipation challenges\u201d in a fun and pragmatic way through the development of simple, yet meaningful solutions. We hope that founders and creative groups will leverage this medium to build a closer relationship with the NSE and the capital market\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv4775215131MsoNormal\">\n<\/p><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) has announced the commencement of the inaugural edition of X-Kathon, its hackathon and idea innovation contest designed to improve the Nigerian capital market.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":20500,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,1593,17,624],"tags":[6199],"coauthors":[2391],"class_list":["post-34873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-business","category-metro","category-news","category-politics","tag-hackathon"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.9 - 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