Apply: Asia-Pacific

Focus: Enhancing customer engagement and decision-making through AI-powered personalization and predictive analytics.

What It Covers:
• Agentic AI
• Tailored banking, insurance, and wealth management solutions using AI (e.g., chatbots, robo-advisors).
• Predictive analytics for customer behavior and risk profiling.
• Data-driven insights to optimize customer journeys and financial product recommendations.

Focus: Advancing financial instruments and transactions through blockchain technology and decentralized finance (DeFi).

What It Covers:
• Tokenization of real-world assets, such as securities, real estate, or collectibles, using blockchain.
• Decentralized lending, trading, and investment platforms.
• Cross-border payment solutions, including central bank digital currencies (CBDCs).

Focus: Integrating financial services seamlessly into non-financial ecosystems to enhance customer experience and unlock new revenue streams.

What It Covers:
• Embedding payment, lending, insurance, or investment options into e-commerce, healthcare, travel, and logistics platforms.
• Development of APIs and partnerships to enable real-time financial service integration.
• Ecosystem-driven offerings such as embedded insurance, and subscription-based financial products.

Focus: Supporting environmentally and socially responsible financial practices through innovative fintech solutions.

What It Covers:
• Enhanced ESG disclosure and regulatory reporting for supply chain.
• Green lending platforms for funding sustainable projects.
• Climate-related risks modelling and analytics
• Sustainable investing and financing
• Carbon trading analytics and technology
• Wealth management strategies focused on ethical portfolios and impact investing.

Focus: Streamlining internal processes and workflows to reduce costs, enhance speed, and improve service delivery using technology.

What It Covers:
• Automation of repetitive tasks using AI and robotic process automation (RPA).
• Process optimization for faster claims, trades, payments, and settlements.
• Advanced data-sharing platforms for regulatory reporting and internal collaboration.
• Workflow tools to simplify back-office and middle-office operations, reducing errors and improving turnaround times.

Focus: Strengthening defences against financial, operational, and cyber risks while exploring the potential of quantum technologies for security and financial modelling.

What It Covers:
• AI-based fraud detection and prevention systems.
• Enhanced cybersecurity measures, including quantum cryptography for secure communications.
• Real-time monitoring for transactions, claims, and fraud detection.
• Quantum-enabled risk modelling, stress testing, and fraud detection capabilities.

- This program is free to join

- No equity taken

- Connect with a powerful network of key decision-makers, as
well as gain access to our founder network, investor network
and Accenture's broader ecosystem.

- Engage with a group of independent mentors, Accenture
leaders and financial Institution
partners, leveraging their expertise and knowledge.

- Develop proofs of concept (PoCs) and drive
commercialization with the help of the world’s leading
financial institutions and Accenture.

- This company’s product/solution would be impactful to client organisation.

- It addresses an unmet need in the market. It is unique and well-differentiated from its competitors in the market.

- Leadership team has a mix of technical expertise, industry knowledge and entrepreneurial experience.

- Solution already tested with a FS client (as POC at least).

- Either physically, or soon-to-be, in Hong Kong with ambitions in the whole region.

- Ensure that legal aspects have been considered to avoid incompatibility with regulated activities.

- Potential for scaling with multi-product and multi-location approach.

- Strong cybersecurity measures and data protection policies in mind aligned with standards in the industry.

- The startup has technical integration with financial institutions infrastructure in mind – through robust API or native integration with existing systems.