Singapore-based financial services firm MetaComp has launched what it describes as the first governance framework for AI agents operating in regulated financial services, introduced at Money20/20 Asia in Bangkok today.
The StableX Know Your Agent (KYA) framework establishes standards for how AI agents are identified, what they are permitted to do, how their behaviour is monitored, and how accountability is assigned when they act, covering the full operational lifecycle of an agent from deployment through to decommissioning.
MetaComp says the framework was developed in alignment with Singapore's Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) Model AI Governance Framework for Agentic AI, published in January 2026 as the world's first cross-sector governance framework for AI agents. The firm says it engaged IMDA directly during the drafting process and is in active discussions with other regulators.
The framework is organised around four pillars: agent identity and registration, authority and permission control, behaviour monitoring and risk intelligence, and ecosystem and interaction governance. On the last point, KYA extends the principles of the FATF Travel Rule to agent-to-agent transactions, requiring the exchange of verified identity and transaction information not just between institutions but across agent-initiated interactions within a unified architecture.
Co-president Tin Pei Ling pointed to a fundamental accountability gap that KYA is designed to address. "When a human leaves an organisation, their access is revoked. When an AI agent completes a transaction, its identity and permissions do not automatically expire," she said. "It can persist in a system long after its mandate has lapsed — with no verified identity anchor, no accountability chain, and no mechanism to intervene."
According to McKinsey's 2026 State of AI Trust survey cited in the framework documentation, fewer than one in three organisations have adequate governance and controls in place to oversee AI agents, even as those agents are already being deployed to initiate payments, execute compliance decisions, and manage portfolios.
MetaComp is releasing the KYA framework openly, inviting financial institutions, regulators, and technology partners to adopt, challenge, and build on it. "This is not a problem any one institution can resolve on its own," Tin said.
Alongside the framework launch, MetaComp announced the expansion of its AgentX agentic financial services Skill ecosystem — described as the first such ecosystem from a licensed financial institution — available from today across Claude, Claude Code, OpenClaw, and other compatible AI platforms via the Model Context Protocol. The ecosystem's first product, the VisionX Know Your Transaction Skill, packages MetaComp's compliance engine into a single agent-callable layer that runs more than four blockchain analytics vendors in parallel. Additional skills covering cross-border payments, treasury, and wealth management are expected by late Q2 2026.
MetaComp has been moving quickly. The group closed $35 million across two Pre-A funding rounds within three months, launched the Web2.5 VisionX Engine, and established a joint venture with Maqam International Holding to connect Abu Dhabi's real asset base to Asian capital markets through the StableX Network. The KYA framework is positioned as the governance layer for the next phase of that buildout.
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