ConcordBank has partnered with the Female Leadership Program for startups for women entrepreneurs and awarded a travel grant for a trip to the United States, where international specialists will work with the participants for a week.
At the first stage, which will take place in Kiev from 12th to 15th October, women entrepreneurs will attend lectures and master classes from leading Ukrainian and international experts in the fields of management, marketing, finance, sales, communications and investment attraction. On the second - from 16th to 17th October to study the art of self-presentation, negotiations with investors and working out a business development strategy. Then they will take part in the competition for a travel grant from CRDF Global and ConcordBank. As a result, 10 winners will continue their education in the United States. The finalists will spend a week in the heart of Silicon Valley, a unique educational and residential complex in Menlo Park. During the intensive, the participants will learn about innovative business promotion tools and real business cases that work. If you would like to participate in this program, details are here.
Olesya Malevanaya, Chairman of the Board of the Ukrainian Hub, warmly welcomes this initiative: “According to DOU, the share of women in Ukrainian IT is actively growing and now amounts to 25%. For comparison - 5 years ago this figure was just over 14%. We are moving in the right direction, but we still need support. After all, it is important that as many women as possible learn about such programs".
ConcordBank has been supporting startups and IT companies for several years already. “ConcordBank is a whole Fintech ecosystem with its own processing and IT team. For 3 years in a row we were the main partners of the ITEM conference and held a teleconference with Google and Facebook employees last fall. This time we decided to support the initiative of the Ukrainian Hub and allocated a travel grant for the winners of the Fintech industry, "says Elena Sosedka, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of ConcordBank.
Recall that ConcordBank became the first non-state bank in Ukraine to launch Concord Pay Internet acquiring with options from Apple Pay and Google Pay. This allowed the leaders of the Ukrainian online business to increase the conversion of their trading platforms. ConcordBank was the first in Europe to connect to 3ds v2.1 by issuing Mastercard, which confirms the high degree of payment security. ConcordBank was included in the top 10 most successful banks in Ukraine in the categories "Internet banking" and "Mobile banking" at the FINANCIAL CLUB AWARDS 2019.
