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      Anthony Thomas

      Anthony Thomas

      Chief Strategy & Growth Officer

      Global Finance & Technology Network (GFTN)

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      Anthony Thomas brings over 27 years of leadership experience across banking and fintech, and recently joined GFTN as Chief Strategy & Growth Officer.

      Before joining GFTN, Anthony was the Global Managing Director for FinTech at Berlin-based Delivery Hero, where he led the company’s Payments and Embedded Financial Services businesses across nearly 70 countries.

      A recognized fintech leader in Southeast Asia, Anthony serves as Chairman of MoMo, Vietnam’s leading financial services super app, and was previously the CEO of GCash in the Philippines, part of Ant Group’s network of digital wallets.

      Earlier in his career, he spent 17 years with Citibank across seven markets in Asia, the United States, and Latin America.

      Anthony’s extensive experience underscores his commitment to leveraging financial technology to foster innovation and inclusion in emerging markets.

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      • 9:00–9:20amMon 16 NovLaunchpadLaunchpad RoomOpen

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        Insights2040 Annual Meetings Opening Address

        LaunchpadLaunchpad RoomOpen

        About this session

        Anthony Thomas and Maha El Dimachki will open the Insights2040 Annual Meetings. Insights2040 is GFTN's new revamped brand, where we bring together a year of dialogue, views and perspectives on what is shaping today's and tomorrow's future of financial services. The aim of Insights2040 annual meetings is to turn these perspectives into practical pathways for further research or concrete action.

        Taking place at the start of Singapore FinTech Festival week, the Annual Meetings will convene senior leaders from central banks, regulators, financial institutions and technology partners to examine the forces shaping the next phase of global finance.

        GFTN will share key findings and priorities emerging from a year of collaboration with its members and partners, examining how technology, geoeconomics, capital, talent and policy are reshaping the financial system. Discussions will span six themes:

        • Accountability & Liability in Agentic Systems
        • The Scaling Challenge in Tokenized Markets
        • Shaping Tomorrow’s Innovation
        • Global Frameworks and Shared Best Practices in Payments Chains
        • Sovereignty & Resilience in a Rewired Financial System
        • Preparing Finance for the Quantum Era

        The Annual Meetings will also set out GFTN’s priorities for 2027, building on the work and insights developed over the past year.

      • 4:00–5:30pmTue 17 NovBoardroomBoardroom 1Invite-OnlyModerator

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        [Invite-only] Beyond the Connection: What We Build on Top of Interoperable Payments - Powered by Tencent

        BoardroomBoardroom 1Invite-OnlyModerator

        About this session

        Cross-border payments are rapidly becoming interoperable: a traveller can now pay abroad with the wallet they already trust. Yet that very success has turned connectivity into table stakes rather than a source of margin — and it has exposed the next gap. Money moves across borders; the services built on top of it largely do not.

        At the same time, wallet and banking platforms across the region are all moving into services beyond payments — ordering, booking, loyalty, credit and merchant tooling — each building its own ecosystem, largely from scratch, and each confined to its own market. Merchants, meanwhile, are asking for reach without rebuilding for every market they enter.

        This boardroom starts from what institutions have actually shipped, then tests what it would take for the service layer to interoperate the way payments now do: what participants would open, what they would need in return, and which commercial, risk and regulatory conditions would have to hold. It is structured so that participants state the principle of reciprocity in their own words, before anyone in the room proposes a model to them.