http://innoventures.onevest.com/
Entries open November 5th 2015, and the entry deadline closes December 31st. The finalists will be announced early in January 2016. The competition will take place in New York at the end of January 2016. Make a winning start to 2016 with the help of the Santander InnoVentures DL Challenge.We don't have all that KYC and regulation stuff needed for a bank to work with us, but maybe CNX could benefit from this and at the same time give BitShares more exposure? It's worth a try right? Maybe FollowMyVote could help a little since they are working on ID related stuff? At least more people in the business will know our technology exists. You could mentioned you attended the Blockchain Summit at China and WebSummit in Dublin, i dont know, it might show them you're serious about what you want to achieve.
It's nor really about the $15k, but the exposure and potential contacts that could be developed. And in the chance we get lucky at todays price that's 4.5M BTS that could be saved in worker proposals to develop the UI, Prediction and Bond Markets or other features.
@Stan plot twist, this was the bank Dan announced