GFF 2026: Singapore has an AI agent framework. India is still examining one

Singapore’s central bank has already published the framework for AI agents in finance that India’s payments body said, at the same conference this week, it is still examining. Chia Der Jiun, Managing Director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), told the Global Fintech Fest in Mumbai on September 11, 2026, that MAS and the financial industry had published SAFR — Safeguards for Agentic Finance at Runtime as a white paper in July. It sets out runtime safeguards including, in his words, “e