Agentic finance needs more than capable AI. Trust has to be built into the infrastructure.
At TOKEN2049 Singapore, MetaComp Co-President Tin Pei Ling took to the BIT Stage to speak on “Trust in an Era of Programmable Money and Agentic AI,” exploring how financial infrastructure must evolve as AI agents begin to make decisions and act on behalf of businesses.
For MetaComp, a Singapore-headquartered payments company licensed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) as a Major Payment Institution, this is a practical question: how can agents act while remaining identifiable, authorised and subject to oversight? Three areas are essential: identity and authority, so each agent has a distinct identity linked to its owner with clear permissions and limits; ongoing oversight, so agent behaviour is monitored for risks and anomalies; and ecosystem governance, so controls account for how agents interact with institutions, other agents and third parties.
