On Wednesday, Higher School of Economics in Moscow announced the second year of its fintech startup program HSE{Pro}Fintech. According to the business incubator, the official partner of the fintech section is Waves, a crowdfunding, community management, and national settlement depository.
Higher School of Economics stated it the fintech startup program aims to develop projects in the field of financial and blockchain technologies, in particular services for banks and their customers, personal finance management systems, peer-to-peer services, investment systems, payments, transfers and other fintech products. The program will offer participating startups with the following:
- Lectures and workshops by experts
- Weekly communications and advice from experts
- Weekly monitoring for developing projects
- Networking
- Presentations
20 projects have been selected for the program, with 50 experts helping startups. The program has already begun and will run until March 31st with a demo day on April 6th.
