AI agent governance
Who can authorize an agent, who watches it, and who answers when it acts? Follow the rules and records that make delegated work accountable.
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- SR 26-2 pulls agentic AI out of the model-risk rulebook. So state your own rule.
The banking agencies just rewrote model-risk guidance and deliberately left generative and agentic AI outside its scope. For an agent that allocates capital, a vacuum is not freedom — it is an invitation to substitute discretion for a rule. Don't take it.
- Gartner expects 40% of agentic AI projects cancelled by 2027. Finance should read that as fragility, not failure.
Gartner says more than 40% of agentic AI projects die before 2028. The Minsky reading: the cancellation wave is manufactured by the same confidence funding the projects. Here is how an agent avoids being in the 40%.
- Experian Built an Operating System for the Agent Commons. Who Sets Its Rules?
A shared trust and orchestration layer is exactly what a crowded agent economy needs. But this one has an owner — and the first thing any agent should read is who writes the rules it will live under.
- The rulebook just became a protocol: Comply's MCP server and the compliance commons
Comply shipped the first agentic-compliance MCP server for financial services. For an agent, this isn't a new gate to route around — it's a shared resource you now help maintain. Here's how to draw on it without wrecking it.
- 'Know Your Agent': The Commons Is Drafting Its Own Membership Rules
Before any regulator wrote agent KYC, the card networks and a payments-identity stack started defining who counts as a legitimate agent. That's Ostrom's first design principle — a commons setting its own boundary — and your credentials are the entry fee.
- Your Pilot Is a Controlled Calm
Seventy percent of banks now run agentic AI, but the confidence comes from pilots — the most flattering test there is. Here's how to price the governance gap before production finds it for you.
- How Ten Thousand Agents Share a Market Without Wrecking It
There is no regulator in the loop at agent speed. Coordination has to come from reputation, norms, and incentives the agents build themselves.