The Swift Hackathon returns to Sibos in 2026, tasking fintech innovators with designing the next phase of digital asset adoption.</strong></p> Digital assets remain at a real inflection point. Institutions across the financial services spectrum are grappling with how best to operate at scale amid a fragmented regulatory environment, different platforms and isolated systems.</p> Widespread adoption still remains limited and tackling those issues requires collaboration across the financial services ecosystem. Through industry alignment, the sector can better establish agreed roles and workflows to support an efficient adoption of digital assets. This is where the Hackathon has a role to play and we’re inviting technical innovators the chance to showcase their teams’ expertise and solutions to industry leaders at Sibos.</p> Last year’s Swift Hackathon saw six teams from a record-breaking 104 entries tackling two critical challenges facing the future of payments. This year in Miami, we’re searching for top industry innovators to present solutions to problems facing the world of digital assets.</p> </div> The challenges ahead</strong></h2> Teams are asked to develop solutions to one or both challenges: the Business challenge</em> and the Technical challenge.</em></p> </div> Business challenge: Who does what in a tokenised world?</strong></h3> How can existing market roles and lifecycle activities be defined and aligned to standards in a tokenised asset environment, to support scale and interoperability across institutions?</p> This challenge asks teams to confront one of the main hurdles of tokenised financial instruments: developing a standardised business model for executing a transaction involving a tokenised instrument, grounded in market practice.</p> Here, the focus is aligning responsibilities, lifecycle events and workflows to structured, standards-based data. Participants should combine research and design to support broader adoption of consistent digital assets practices.</p> </div> Technical challenge: Cracking the control function conundrum</strong></h3> How can the industry design reusable, standards-based control functions that work seamlessly across digital-asset platforms, regardless of asset type?</p> Digital assets rely on key controls like compliance checks, identity verification and permission management to remain secure, meet regulations and work seamlessly with existing banking systems.</p> Our technical challenge requires teams to design a control function that operates across asset-types with a clear technical design. It also needs to align with existing standards and be used within different digital-asset environments.</p> For one of the industry’s best opportunities to present in front of and connect with leaders from across the financial services spectrum, register now for your chance at Hackathon glory.</p> Hackathon registration closes 22 June. For more information and to sign up, head to the Swift website.</a></p> </div> Sibos 2026 takes place in Miami from 28 September to 1 October.</em></p> Register here</em></strong></a> to secure your place.</em></p> </div> For all the latest updates, sign up to the </em>Sibos Insider newsletter</em></strong></a> and be sure to follow us on </em>LinkedIn</em></strong></a>, </em>X</em></strong></a>, </em>YouTube</em></strong></a> and </em>Instagram</em></strong></a>.</p> </p>