Financial Innovation Lab
From a sketch to a deployment-grade pilot — and from a classroom to the floor — each door has a program, and each program ends with something you can show. Once a year, the whole floor becomes a racetrack.
For ideas that deserve more than a document.
Turn a concept into a test pilot quickly: sketch the flow, mock what must be mocked, and put it on lab hardware in front of people. Learn whether the idea breathes before anyone builds it properly.
For solutions that already work — somewhere safe.
Your product runs under real-life conditions: real machines, real integrations, unscripted users. The Lab instruments the whole run and hands you what a staging environment never can — evidence.
For business and academic researchers.
A residency with access to the floor, the Open Sandbox and anonymized interaction data. Study how people actually use financial technology — and publish. The Lab gets better questions; the field gets real answers.
For undergraduate and technical-career students.
The Lab opens its floor to students on two paths: bring a project of your own and build it on technologies, software and devices no classroom has — or step into a live Lab project with real tasks, real roles and real responsibility. Either way, the practical hours your academic program requires get earned on working machines, not simulated ones.
For teams of students, professionals and organizations.
Once a year, the Lab sets a financial-innovation challenge and teams race it — closer to Formula 1 than to a hackathon. Each team is paired with or sponsored by a fintech startup, a financial institution or another organization, and builds toward a real, viable solution on the Lab’s machines and in its Open Sandbox.
Programme 03 has a page of its own. A Fellow is a resident: someone who arrives with a defined question, works it on the experimental areas under supervision, on a real problem — and leaves findings that publish. The tracks, what Fellows get, what the Lab asks, how cohorts form and the application form all live there.
Every program starts the same way: tell the Lab which door you are knocking on.
