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Anthony Thomas
Chief Strategy & Growth Officer
Global Finance & Technology Network (GFTN)
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.
Speaking at SFF 2026
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10:20–10:50amThu 19 NovFestival StageHall 1, Singapore EXPOPremiumModerator
Technology Rewiring
The Autonomous Economy: Where the Intelligence Layer Meets the Exchange of Value
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Akio IsowaSenior Managing Executive Officer & Group Chief Digital Innovation OfficerSumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC)
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Douglas FeaginPresidentAnt International
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Rajat TanejaPresident of TechnologyVisa
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Anthony ThomasChief Strategy & Growth OfficerGlobal Finance & Technology Network (GFTN)Moderator
About this session
Imagine an economy where software doesn't just recommend decisions—it makes them, negotiates them, and settles them, all without a human in the loop. That future arrives when agentic AI meets programmable money. Autonomous agents that can transact, and digital money that can execute logic on its own, together unlock machine-speed commerce that today's financial rails were never built to handle. Learn how agentic AI and programmable money combine to reshape payments, settlement, and value exchange, what new risks emerge when agents transact autonomously, and how institutions should prepare for an economy that runs itself.
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