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Safeguards for Agentic Finance at Runtime (v1.0)
The source document. Defines the envelope, the four components, and the four outcomes. Start here.
Resources
Annotated reading on runtime governance for agentic AI in finance. Annotations are our own. Vendor material is labelled.
MindForge ConsortiumIndustryCited in SAFR
AI Risk Management: Operationalisation Handbook
Practical guidance including agent-specific practices: least privilege, kill switches, searchable logging. SAFR builds on this groundwork.
IMDARegulatoryCited in SAFR
Model AI Governance Framework for Agentic AI (v1.5)
Singapore's governance framing for agents: bounding use cases, limiting access, human oversight, accountability.
IMFAcademicCited in SAFR
How agentic AI will reshape payments
A three-layer model for agentic payments that identifies control and authorisation as the critical governance point.
MindForge ConsortiumIndustryCited in SAFR
AI Risk Management: Executive Handbook
Seventeen considerations across scope, risk management, lifecycle, and enablers. The board-level companion.
Financial Stability BoardRegulatoryCited in SAFR
The financial stability implications of AI
Where the correlated-behaviour concern comes from: concentration in a few AI providers as a systemic risk.
Financial Stability BoardRegulatoryCited in SAFR
Sound practices for responsible adoption of AI (consultation)
The 2026 follow-up, extending the herding and procyclicality concerns.
MASRegulatoryCited in SAFR
Guidelines on AI risk management
MAS's supervisory guidelines on AI risk. Useful for understanding what SAFR is not.
NISTStandardsCited in SAFR
AI Risk Management Framework (AI RMF 1.0)
Map, Measure, Manage, Govern. The widely used US baseline for AI risk.
BISAcademicCited in SAFR
AI agents for cash management in payment systems
Experiments with a generative AI agent handling intraday liquidity trade-offs.
AcademicCited in SAFR
Scalable runtime governance for agentic AI in financial services
Bounded capabilities, runtime telemetry, continuous authorisation, tiered containment. Closest academic neighbour to SAFR.
arXivAcademicCited in SAFR
Compliance-aware agentic payments on stablecoin rails
Mandate-based authorisation with cryptographic signatures, enforced at machine speed.
Global Layer OneAcademicCited in SAFR
Programmable compliance
Compliance architecture for regulated tokenised assets.
MASStandardsCited in SAFR
Purpose Bound Money technical whitepaper
Programmable conditions on tokenised value, one of the settlement-layer controls SAFR sits above.
IETFStandardsCited in SAFR
The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework (RFC 6749)
Delegated authorisation, the lineage behind SAFR's mandate concept.
Communications of the ACMAcademicCited in SAFR
Programming semantics for multiprogrammed computations
The origin of capability-based security, which the mandate concept draws on.
GoogleVendor materialCited in SAFR
Agent Payments Protocol (AP2)
Cryptographically signed mandates for agent spending authority. A concrete example of SAFR-style mandates.
Stripe / TempoVendor materialCited in SAFR
Machine Payments Protocol (MPP)
Open standard for agent-coordinated fiat and stablecoin payments at the settlement layer.