MoraBanc's first AI finance hackathon draws 65, awards €4,000 top prize

What's the deal? MoraBancDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → held its first finance and AI hackathon in Andorra on November 7 and 8, drawing 65 participants across 28 teams and individual entries. Barcelona team Veenty — Andrea Gil and Óscar Barragán — won the €4,000 top prize for a tool helping people with limited digital skills manage money.

Who else placed? Two Andorran teams took the remaining podium spots. Human EngineersDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → placed second with an AI chatbot for bank websites, and Eventual Consistency came third with an online payments and sales solution for digital businesses.

How it ran: Over 30 hours, teams built prototypes to improve people's financial lives using AI, then presented them to a jury. The bank ran the event with Amazon Web Services (AWS) as technology partner, supplying cloud infrastructure and AI tools, and Hive FiveDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → hosting in Andorra la Vella.

What they said: MoraBanc's head of artificial intelligence, Eric García, said the turnout "exceeded initial expectations" and praised the standard of the proposals. He thanked AWS for its technical support and Hive Five for hosting.

Why now? The event follows a separate MoraBanc banking hackathon in July, which drew 50 young participants to tackle onboarding, AI-enabled productivity, and financial literacy. Both sit within Andorra's push to diversify its economy, with the government naming fintech a priority.

The signal: Two local teams on the podium points to growing homegrown interest and talent in Andorra — though the overall winner came from Barcelona, and a single event is no proof of a scaled fintech ecosystem.

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