An open-banking earning and savings tool for young people

新冠疫情对年轻人的打击最为严重，他们的教育受到严重影响，失业率也在不断上升。“年轻数字收入者”项目将把我们产品的功能扩展到综合金融储蓄和交易。具体来说，我们希望包括这样的功能，即允许平台上的年轻人从赚钱发展到建立收入和储蓄目标，并围绕收入分配做出选择。我们正在通过一个成熟的团队开发这一功能，该团队已经拥有设计和金融应用程序的经验，并对这一新应用程序所涉及的经济和技术有着密切的了解。通过开发这一功能，我们将成为年轻人寻找赚钱机会的一站式商店，然后保存/分配他们的收入。MyPocketSkill是一家屡获殊荣的教育科技/金融科技公司，最近的成功包括：* 2020年入围英国伟大企业家奖（创业类）* Zara，联合创始人，今年早些时候被评为TechInvest的女性金融力量名单（塑造金融未来的女性）。*入选NatWest的2019年\#PowerUp-100，这是一份从10，000家初创公司中选出的100家初创公司名单，这些公司“对当地社区和国家经济产生了重大影响，表现出令人印象深刻的增长，并展示了我们对该国未来商业领袖的期望行为和品质”。我们的平台在COVID 19大流行期间也很有用，也很重要。MyPocketSkill支持在家工作的父母，将他们与年轻人联系起来，提供教育，参与活动（学术，艺术，舞蹈，数字，戏剧，音乐，技术帮助/学费）。这些成就最近通过EUvsVirus黑客大赛得到了认可，这是世界上有史以来最大的黑客大赛（20，900名参与者和2，150个项目），我们被指定为决赛选手。

Young people have been hardest hit by the COVID pandemic, with huge disruption in education and now increasing unemployment in this demographic.The Young-Digital-Earners project will extend the functionality of our product to integrated financial savings and transactions. Specifically, we want to include functionality that will allow young people on the platform to progress from earning money to establishing earnings and savings goals and making choices around where their earnings are distributed. We are developing this capability through an established team which already has experience in designing and financial apps and has a close understanding of the economics and technology involved in this new application.By developing this functionality we will become a 1-stop-shop for young people to find opportunities to earn money and to then save/distribute their earnings. It will create a stronger relationship with our customers and open up opportunities for partnerships with banks / financial services providers.MyPocketSkill is an award-winning edtech/fintech company, recent successes include:* 2020 finalists in the Great British Entrepreneur Awards (Startup Category)* Zara, cofounder, was named earlier this year on TechInvest's Women in Finance Powerlist (Women Shaping the Future of Finance).* Featured in NatWest's 2019 \#PowerUp-100, a list of 100 startups, chosen from 10,000 who "stand out for having a significant impact on their local communities and on the national economy, showing impressive growth, and demonstrating the behaviours and qualities that we expect of the country's future business leaders".Our platform has also been useful and relevant throughout the COVID19 pandemic, with MyPocketSkill supporting work-at-home parents by connecting them with young people to provide education, engagement activities (academic, art, dance, digital, drama, music, technology help/tuition). These achievements were recognised recently through the EUvsVirus hackathon which was the world largest ever hackathon (20,900 participants and 2,150 projects) where we were a designated finalist.