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.
Resources
Annotated reading on runtime governance for agentic AI in finance. Annotations are our own. Vendor material is labelled.
arXivAcademicCited in SAFR
Compliance-aware agentic payments on stablecoin rails
Mandate-based authorisation with cryptographic signatures, enforced at machine speed.
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.