Banking & Finance
WFIS Philippines 2026
Join WFIS 2026 Philippines on AUG 25-26 at Manila. Connect with top banks, financial and technology leaders at the premier financial event of the year.
6Speakers
26Sponsors
29On the bill · sessions
29Companies · in total
Speakers
Programmed at WFIS, in alphabetical order.Amaneci Grace De Silva
SVP, Shared Services Technology CTO · Security Bank Corporation
Atty. Arifa Ala
Senior Assistant Governor · Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas
Catherine de Joya Urtola
Senior Vice President, Chief Compliance Officer · Bank of China (Hong Kong) Limited - Manila Branch
Ed Martin Sianghio
Vice President, Head of Data Transformation · Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI)
Guada Vergel de Dios
Director, Chief Compliance Officer · Mizuho Bank
Lilian Cruz
Senior Vice President & CIO · Land Bank of the Philippines
Sponsors
The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.Agenda
Selected from 29 sessions on the bill.- 09:00 – 09:15
Beyond the Roadmap: What the Philippines' Digital Finance Progress Actually means in Pesos and People
The numbers that matter: BSP 2024 Financial Inclusion Survey data - account ownership at 56%, InstaPay hitting ₱1T+ monthly volume, and the 44% of adult Filipinos still outside the…
- 09:00 – 09:15
The Compliance Crucible: What RA 12010, AFASA, and BSP's Hardening AML Posture Actually Demand of Philippine Financial Institutions Now
Beyond box-ticking: Translating AFASA’S risk-based requirements into operational compliance architectures that withstand AMLC scrutiny. The mule economy: How organised fraud networ…
- 09:15 – 09:30
Driving Inclusive National Growth Through Digital Public Banking: Reimagining Financial Access, Sustainability, and Innovation in the Philippines
Expanding Access - Growing phygital branches and digital onboarding to reach farmers, fishers, OFWs, and underserved communities. Scaling Digital Infrastructure - Strengthening cor…
- 09:15 – 09:30
Winning the Unbanked: The Business Case, the Blueprint, and the Brutal Realities of Extending Financial Access to 30 million Filipinos
Designing for the last kilometre: Mobile-native architectures that serve informal workers, rural households, and the platform economy. Beyond the app: Why trust - not technology - …
- 09:30 – 09:50
Banking on Intelligence: Building the Cloud-Native, AI-First Institution that can Compete in 2026
Core modernisation reality check: Why cloud-native architecture is still the prerequisite - and what the cost, timeline, and risk profile of migration looks like for a PH bank oper…
- 09:30 – 09:50
Cognitive Banking: The Future of Customer Engagement
Reimagining customer interaction through AI-powered conversational platforms that offer intuitive, real-time support while evolving into trusted financial companions. Leveraging co…
- 09:50 – 10:10
Real-Time, Reliable, Responsible: The New Calculus of AI-Driven Risk and Fraud Decisioning in Philippine Financial Services
The speed imperative: How real-time machine learning is compressing fraud detection from hours to milliseconds without sacrificing accuracy. When AI gets it wrong: Governing model …
- 09:50 – 10:10
Rethinking Digital Identity: Securing Trust Beyond Onboarding
AI impacts on identity verification: Exploring how AI has impacted both positively and adversely on identity verification and what steps can be taken by financial institutions to s…
- 10:10 – 10:40
Identity at the Frontier: Deepfakes, Synthetic Personas, and the Battle to Secure Trust in an Increasingly Compromised Digital Landscape
The deepfake threat is no longer theoretical: What Philippine banks are actually seeing at onboarding and how liveness detection is evolving in response. Synthetic identity fraud a…
Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer
What does it mean when 29 companies show up, and 2 bet on three roles at once?
29 companies. two are betting more than once.
The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page, cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.
2All threespeak · spons · exh
23Sponsoringsponsor only
4Companies Speakingspeaker only
The Triple-Threat
83% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.
- C-suite350%
- VP-level233%
- Other roles117%
Of 6 on the bill · classified by free-text title
- 01Bangko Sentral ng PilipinasSp1V
- 02Security Bank CorporationSp1V
- 03Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC)Sp
- 04AppsFlyerSp
- 05AXA PhilippinesSp
- 06BDO Unibank IncSp
- 07Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT)Sp
- 08East West Banking CorporationSp
- 09EmbedITSp
- 10Etiqa Life & General Assurance Philippines, IncSp
- 11Expleo Solutions LimitedSp
- 12FreshworksSp
- 13HyperVergeSp
- 14Komo by EastWestSp
unspecified26
100% of 26
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