Speakers
Matthew Driver
Executive Vice President, Head of Services, Asia Pacific
Mastercard
Matthew Driver is the executive vice president of Services for Asia Pacific at Mastercard.
In this role, Matthew leads the team responsible for Mastercard’s value added services in the region including fraud management, risk and cybersecurity, consulting and marketing services, as well as insights, analytics, loyalty and personalization programs. Under Matthew’s leadership, the team is also championing innovation by leveraging AI and its in-house lab, the Foundry.
Matthew has been with Mastercard since 2002 and has held several roles of increasing seniority spanning London, New York and Singapore. Prior to his current role, Matthew was chief client officer, Citibank based in Purchase New York and was responsible for managing all aspects of Mastercard’s global relationship with the world’s largest credit card issuer and payments bank. His previous roles include division president of Southeast Asia, general manager of Global Accounts for Asia Pacific, the general manager of the ABN AMRO relationship for Asia Pacific, and the vice president of Account Management in London.
Before joining Mastercard, Matthew held several roles at Edengene, American Express, WPP plc and Westpac Banking Corporation across geographies such as Hong Kong and London, where he enjoyed a career in consulting, financial services and analytics. He is a former male champion of the Singapore Financial Women’s Association was the UN HeForShe leader of the year for Singapore in 2016. He was also a recipient of a Global Pioneer Award from NTUC Singapore as part of their U Future Leaders program in 2017. In addition to these accolades, Matthew was also previously the vice chairman of the Financial Services Committee of the US ASEAN Business Council, an advisory board member of the Singapore Management University’s Lee Kong Chiang School of Business, and of MercyCorps Asia Pacific.
Matthew has MBA's from Columbia Business School in New York and London Business School.
Speaking at SFF 2026
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1:00–1:30pmWed 18 NovFutureMatters StageHall 5, Singapore EXPOPremium
Technology Rewiring
The State of AI Across the World
FutureMatters StageHall 5, Singapore EXPOPremium
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Nobuya KawasakiPresident DirectorPT. Bank Danamon Indonesia, Tbk
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Pedro ArntChief Executive OfficerdLocal
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Matthew DriverExecutive Vice President, Head of Services, Asia PacificMastercard
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Vishnu R. DusadCo-founder & Managing DirectorNucleus Software
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Celine Le CotonnecChief Data OfficerBank of SingaporeModerator
About this session
Agentic AI is moving rapidly from concept to deployment, but its trajectory across financial services is far from uniform. Institutions are experimenting with autonomous agents across markets, functions and business models, while adoption, ambition and readiness vary significantly.
This opening conversation takes stock of the emerging global landscape: where is agentic AI gaining real traction, which parts of finance are moving fastest, and what are institutions learning as they move from experimentation towards deployment? Most importantly, as the technology develops at different speeds and in different ways, where could the next wave of value emerge? -

