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Himal Makwana
Global Head of Corporate & AI Strategy
FIS
Himal Makwana is Head of Corporate Strategy at FIS, a Fortune 500 financial technology leader. Working closely with the CEO and board, Himal leads corporate strategy, firmwide AI strategy, enterprise portfolio management governing over $1B in annual R&D investment, and a new Enterprise Data Product function built on one of the industry's most comprehensive financial data sets spanning banking, payments, and issuing. He also oversees FIS Ventures, the company's strategic investment arm.
Prior to his strategy roles, Himal served as Global eCommerce CFO at Worldpay and has been a leader across some of the most transformative transactions in the payments sector — Worldpay's £4.8B IPO (2015), the $10.4B Vantiv merger (2017), the $43B sale to FIS (2019), and the $13.5B Issuer Solutions acquisition (2025).
Speaking at SFF 2026
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1:30–2:10pmWed 18 NovFutureMatters StageHall 5, Singapore EXPOPremium
Technology Rewiring
How Can Agentic AI Create a Commercial and Competitive Advantage?
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Himal MakwanaGlobal Head of Corporate & AI StrategyFIS
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Melvyn LowGroup Chief Strategy & Transformation OfficerOCBC
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Derrick GohGroup Chief Operating OfficerDBS
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Pat PatelChief Executive Officer, USA, LATAM, Middle East & Africa; Co-CEO, GFTN ConnectionsGlobal Finance & Technology Network (GFTN)Moderator
About this session
As AI capabilities become more widely available, financial institutions face a harder question: what will make their use of the technology difficult to replicate? Access to models alone offers little assurance of lasting differentiation.
Where can agentic AI generate additional revenue, improve pricing or make previously uneconomical services viable? Does advantage come from proprietary data, distribution, partnerships or the ability to redesign a business proposition?
This conversation examines which strategic choices could create defensible value, and what evidence would justify committing capital to them. -
