Fintech Milano Hub - 2022 Call for Proposals: open to submissions from 15 December

Applications for the 2022 Call for Proposals may be submitted from 15 December 2022 to 31 January 2023.

The Rules to access the services offered by Milano Hub, the Bank of Italy’s innovation hub, and the 2022 Call for Proposals are now online.

Ten Fintech projects will be selected. They will be eligible to receive support from Milano Hub and specialist advice from our teams of experts on the subjects of the projects (e.g. banking and insurance regulations, financial and payment services, etc.).

The theme of the 2022 Call for Proposals is ‘The application of Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) to banking, financial, insurance and payment services, with special regard to ensuring: governance reliability and compliance with the applicable provisions and guidelines expressed by the Authorities; robust settlement mechanisms with particular regard to solutions capable of ensuring the final settlement of payments in central bank money; interoperability with other DLT platforms or platforms based on alternative models (e.g. API); certainty and security of operations from a technical and legal standpoint (for example, in terms of transaction finality); and consumer protection.

Further information is available in the Call for Proposals 2022.