Submission Information for the Fintech Olympiad 2022

To aspire participants to be a socially responsible citizen, Fintech Olympiad 2022 encourages proposal with themes about social innovation or green skills.

Submission Requirements and Deadlines

All project submissions are to be emailed to ftol22@hkbcs.org using the contact email that you registered with, and by using this specially formatted subject line [w][xx] yyy by zzzz, where w is the ISO 3166 code of your region (e.g. CN for the Mainland of China, HK for the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, and MO for the Macao Special Administrative Region), xx is the short-form or acronym of your institution (e.g. CityU for the City University of Hong Kong), yyy is your project name, and zzzz is your team's name, OR by filling in the Competition Registration Form

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The final round of the IFTOL 2022 competition is taking place on 28th May 2022

Note: If the team submit at least the team profile and poster [board] by 30 Jan 2022 will be given priority access to mentoring and office hours. The team are required to submit team profile, poster[board], pitch deck and pitch video by 16 Apr 2022 to attend the final competition.

Submission Specifications

Required

1. CV/resumé: PDF file, maximum one (1) A4 page.
2. Posterboard: Figma or PDF, landscape, dimensions 36×48 inches at 300 dpi or equivalent (14400×10800 pixels).
3. Pitch Deck: PDF and PPTX file, no slide limit.
4. Pitch Deck Presentation: mp4 file or YouTube, 10-minute limit.

Optional

1. Whitepaper: PDF file, recommended ten (10) A4 pages, excluding references and appendices.
2. Prototype (optional) it does not need to be chaincode or smart contracts, but even an interactive mockup to demonstrate some workflows of your solution would be helpful to adjudicators in understanding your project.
3. Prototype Demonstration (optional) mp4 file or YouTube unlisted URL, no limit (but recommended not to exceed 10 minutes) to walk through your prototype, to help adjudicators understand your project.
4. Elevator Pitch (optional): mp4 file or YouTube unlisted URL, 1-minute limit, to give adjudicators and visitors an idea of what to expect when looking into your project in detail.

Whitepaper Style Guide

Page Setup

Use ISO 216 standard A4 pages, 21 cm (8.3 in) wide by 29.7 cm (11.7 in) tall, with the following margins (assuming single-sided if printed):

1. Top: 2.54 cm (1 in)
2. Bottom: 2.54 cm (1 in)
3. Left: 3.81 cm (1.5 in)
4. Right: 2.54 cm (1 in)

Therefore, you will have an area 15.24 cm (6 in) wide by 22.86 cm (9 in) tall to work with.

Font Requirements

Pagination

All pages must be numbered consecutively and all page numbers should be placed centred at the bottom of the page. The page numbers are numbered with Arabic numerals.

Grammar

This style guide is not intended to be a primer on English composition or grammar. However, some practices are not acceptable, such as the usage of profanity, slang, and colloquialisms. We highly recommend using standard English (United Kingdom), as this is the official standard for Hong Kong, but there will be no penalties for using non-British standard spellings.