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Sunday Essay — Singapore's Rulebook for Agentic Finance

Singapore's Monetary Authority has published the first regulator-authored document to name, at runtime, the exact control gates between an autonomous agent's proposed action and a live ledger. SAFR's policy engine, runtime validator, and append-only audit ledger are not aspirational — they map onto what DBS and Grab Finance already run in production. For model risk officers from Jakarta to Frankfurt, this is the document to read before the vendor decks arrive.